Moxel - Muscovy - Russia

In 1698, Peter I was in London to acquire some personal insights into how the shipbuilding industry could be organized and run. A large...

A training center in Tambov, Russia, hung a banner showing a 'Russian empire' that included all of central and eastern Europe, a re-divided Germany,...

This nation − at its heart conquering, greedy by dint of deprivation − atones in advance, at home, through a debasing submission, in...

Lyubov Dostoevskaya is best known for the book Dostoyevsky as Portrayed by His Daughter, originally published in Munich in 1920. The quotes below are from the 1922...

Per Wikipedia, the Battle of Shelon was a battle between the forces of the Duchy of Moscow under Ivan III (r. 1462–1505) and the...

Philip II of Moscow (1507 - 1569) Russian Orthodox monk, who became Metropolitan of Moscow during the reign of Ivan the Terrible. He was one of a few Metropolitans who dared openly to contradict royal authority, and it is widely believed that the Tsar had him murdered on that account.

British traveler of the 18th century Dr. Clarke sounded very confident describing the etymology of the word 'Kremlin'. In his bestselling book 'Travels in...

"I remember about five years ago I had to come to Imatra for a day with the writers Bunin and Fedorov. We were...

After World War I, the Treaty of Versailles limited the German Army number to 100 thousand men and forbade Germany from producing or purchasing...

Richard Pipes (July 11, 1923 – May 17, 2018) was an American academic who specialized in Russian and Soviet history. In 1976, he headed...