The first known European leaflet depicting Russian/ Moscovite atrocities against women and children, 1561

“The earliest illustrated Livonian War pamphlet – “Sehr grewliche, erschröckliche, vor unerhörte, warhafftige Newe Zeitung was für grausame Tyrannei der Moscoviter …” which translates into English...

‘Keeping Pledge to Hitler’: How Moscow allied with Nazis and started WW2

Harvard Professor Robert C. Tucker, a political scientist and historian in his second Stalin biography, Stalin in Power: The Revolution From Above: 1928-1941, wrote:...

Russian Fervent Patriots and Finnish Buffet, – A. Kuprin’s observation of ugly Russian nature...

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"I remember about five years ago I had to come to Imatra for a day with the writers Bunin and Fedorov. We were...

Slavs originated in Ukraine and Belarus. They replaced 80% of local gene pool in...

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According to the Early Slavs - Wikipedia page, “A 2025 comprehensive archaeogenetic study published in Nature on 555 samples out of which 359 from the...

‘Russia, Prison of Peoples’ term was coined by de Custine in 1839

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Marquis de Custine in his La Russie en 1839 coined the description of Russia as the prison of the peoples. Below are the quotes from...

Russian peasants are worn-out folks with emaciated faces, uncombed hair dressed in zipuns full...

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

German leaflet of 1561 depicting Russian/Muscovite war atrocities in the area of present-day Latvia...

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"The earliest illustrated Livonian War pamphlet – “Sehr grewliche, erschröckliche, vor unerhörte, warhafftige Newe Zeitung was für grausame Tyrannei der Moscoviter ...” which translates...

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.

Russia is like a bloated toad ready to explode

In 2024, a training center in Tambov, Russia, hung a banner showing a 'Russian empire' that included all of central and eastern Europe, a...

‘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...