Moxel - Muscovy - Russia

For people who think that the formation that calls itself "Russia" got bad only with midget Putin getting into office, or "broke bad" a...

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...

William of Rubruck was a Flemish Franciscan missionary and explorer. In 1248, he accompanied King Louis IX of France on the Seventh Crusade. On...

"On December 23, 1791, Catherine II (“the Great”), the empress of Russia, authorized the creation of the Pale of Settlement, an area in the...

"The social, intellectual, and political state of present Russia is the result, and, so to speak, the resume, of the reigns of Ivan IV.,...

The painting of Aleksander Orlowski portrays the massacre that the troops of Russian General Suvorov committed in one of the suburbs of the Polish...

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

"The Kremlin is not like any other palace, it is a city in itself; a city that forms the ioot of Moscow, and that...

The quote is taken from The Diary of a Writer: "I have said that Russians are disliked in Europe. That they are disliked, I...

"In the midst of the fetes of Petersburg, I cannot forget the journey of Empress Catherine into the Crimea, and the facades of vilages,...