Veche Assembly of Kyiv Rus: Scandinavians had a similar tradition, Muscovites never did
Per Wikipedia, Veche was a popular assembly during the Middle Ages. The veche is mentioned during the times of Kyiv Rus and it later became a powerful institution in Russian cities...
Future ‘Russians’ attacked Germany in the ranks of the Golden Horde in 1240’s
In the year 1254, King of France Louis IX sent an emissary to Batu Khan, who had his camp at the Volga River. The...
Russians are ‘lower in the scale of nature than the orangutan’, – Sir Winston...
"Few accuse Winston Churchill of naiveté, especially about the Soviet Union, yet his quarters, at Yalta and during previous meetings with Stalin, were also...
‘Ignorant, superstitious, cunning, brutal, barbarous, dirty, mean’ – Dr. Clarke’s description of Russians 200...
"The picture of Russian manners varies little with reference to the prince or the peasant. The first nobleman in the empire, when dismissed by...
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...
German leaflet of 1561 depicting Russian/Muscovite war atrocities in the area of present-day Latvia...
"The earliest illustrated Livonian War pamphlet – “Sehr grewliche, erschröckliche, vor unerhörte, warhafftige Newe Zeitung was für grausame Tyrannei der Moscoviter ...” which translates...
Napoleon’s View of His Russian Campaign: only extreme and premature winter spoiled our triumph
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...
How Russia brought about World War Two
After World War I, the Treaty of Versailles limited the German Army number to 100 thousand men and forbade Germany from producing or purchasing...
‘Ukraine or the Cossacks Land’ map of 1720
The map was made by a famous German geographer and cartographer Johann Baptist Homann. The map is valuable not just because it can serve as...
American humanitarian aid during Russian Famine of 1891‒92
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,...
