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Battle of Galicia also known as the Great Battle of Galicia, was a major battle between Russia and Austria-Hungary during the early stages of World War I in 1914. In the...

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...

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

The editors of Edward Clarke's Travels in Russia, Tartary and Turkey published in 1839 in Edinburgh by William and Robert Chambers described the events...

Russian Liberation Army known as the Vlasov Army was a collaborationist formation, primarily composed of Russians, that fought under German command during World War II. Since January 1945, the army...

In his 1898 short story “The Cossack Way,” Ivan Bunin writes: “I liked the khokhly very much at first sight. I immediately noticed the...

Agathangel Krymsky (1871-1942) was a polyglot who was fluent in 35 languages ​​(some estimates put it at up to 60), including Arabic, Persian, Turkish,...

al-Masudi (c. 896–956), was a historian, geographer, and traveler. He is sometimes referred to as the 'Herodotus of the Arabs'. A polymath and prolific author of over twenty works on theology, history (Islamic...

"I have said that Russians are disliked in Europe. That they are disliked, I believe, this no one will dispute. Inter alia we, all...

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