‘Ukraine’ and ‘Muscovy’ names in a 1650 book title by French engineer Beauplan

According to Wikipedia, Guillaume Le Vasseur de Beauplan (c. 1600 – 1673) was a French-Polish cartographer, engineer and architect. Beauplan served as artillery captain for the army of the Crown of the Kingdom...

Mongolian slavery, NOT democratic Kyiv Rus, formed Muscovy-Russia

“The bloody mire of the Mongolian slavery, not the rude glory of the Norman epoch, forms the cradle of Muscovy, and modern Russia is...

Russian Orthodox Church was formed by the Golden Horde

Harvard Professor Richard Pipes stated in his 'Russia Under the Old Regime': "The Golden Age of the Orthodox Church in Russia coincided with Mongol...

Voltaire described the effect of Muscovite Orthodox religion: Encouragement to Wickedness

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.

American humanitarian aid during Russian Famine of 1891‒92

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In 1892, a prominent maritime painter of Armenian descent born in Crimea, Ivan Aivazovsky (1817–1900), made a gift to the Corcoran Gallery in Washington,...

Rurik, ‘Founder of Rus’ Dynasty’, Never Existed: Moscow may have invented the whole story...

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Muscovy-’Russia’ clings to Rurik with such ferocity as if this figure affects not only its history, but the very right to be called a...

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...

How Peter I of Russia capitulated to Turks: Pruth Campaign

After the Poltava defeat, the wounded Charles XII of Sweden and Hetman Mazepa of Ukraine stayed in Moldova which was under the protection of...

Napoleon’s View of His Russian Campaign: only extreme and premature winter spoiled our triumph

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Discourse at the Opening of the Legislative Body. Palais des Tuileries, Feb. 14, 1813. "I entered Russia. The French armies were constantly victorious on the...

History of Rus-Ukraine, history of Muscovy-Russia

The "Gardariki, Ukraine" e-book below explains why it is so.