How Tzar of Moscovy Peter I displayed his barbarism in London
In 1698, Peter I was in London to acquire some personal insights into how the shipbuilding industry could be organized and run. A large...
Russian peasants are worn-out folks with emaciated faces, uncombed hair dressed in zipuns full...
In his 1898 short story “The Cossack Way,” Ivan Bunin writes: “I liked the khokhly very much at first sight. I immediately noticed the...
Sharp difference exists between Ukrainians and Russians, – Ivan Bunin, the first Russian Noble...
Ivan Bunin (1870-1953) was the first Russian writer awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1933. He was noted for the strict artistry with which he carried...
Novgorod the Great was a ‘Ukrainian’ city founded by Kyiv a century later than...
Per Wikipedia, Valentin Yanin (1929 - 2020) was a leading Russian historian who authored 700 books and articles whose expertise was especially Novgorod the Great, where he...
Russia’s attempts to destroy Ukraine in the past 300 years
True reason behind this hatred > < Real nature of the Muscovites and glimpse into their history
Majority of Russians are Tartars fond of destruction, – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
"I have said that Russians are disliked in Europe. That they are disliked, I believe, this no one will dispute. Inter alia we, all...
Kremlin, Sacred Asylum of Oriental Despotism, Palace of Tyrant, – Marquis de Custine in...
"The Kremlin is not like any other palace, it is a city in itself; a city that forms the ioot of Moscow, and that...
Moxel, ‘race of pure pagans’ to the north of Rus described by Willliam of...
William of Rubruck was a Flemish Franciscan missionary and explorer. In 1248, he accompanied King Louis IX of France on the Seventh Crusade. On...
Muscovy-Russia, Ugly Replica of the Golden Horde
Famous travel-blogger of the 18th century Edward Clarke in his bestselling book 'Travels in Russia, Tartary and Turkey' repeated the facts about Muscovy that...
George F. Kennan’s Essay on De Custine’s ‘Russia in 1839’: the Best Book about...
George F. Kennan (1904 – 2005) was an American diplomat and historian. He was best known as an advocate of a policy of containment of Soviet...
