After the Warsaw Uprising in November of 1830, Moscow declared that the Poles form...

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 nation is like a slave who standing on his knees dreams of the...

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This nation − at its heart conquering, greedy by dint of deprivation − atones in advance, at home, through a debasing submission, in...

Russia always was Rotten Spot of Civilization

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

Dostoyevsky: ‘Scratch a Russian and you will find a Tartar’

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

Russians are semi-Asiatic, drilled, but not civilized; they resemble ‘trained bears who make you...

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"Russians… tread in the steps of European elegance, without knowing that refinement of habits has no value except as it announces the existence of...

Europeans perceive in Russians barbarians ‘rejoicing over the thought that something somewhere may be...

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

Sharp difference exists between Ukrainians and Russians, – Ivan Bunin, the first Russian Noble...

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Ivan Bunin (1870-1953) was the first Russian writer awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1933. He was noted for the strict artistry with which he carried...

Russians hurl accusations at their victims in order to justify their own rancor; They...

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"During his change of horse-relays, Turgenev asked to see Custine. There then ensued, presumably at the postal station, a most curious verbal exchange, the...

The Rus are a Great Nation living on the coast of the Black Sea...

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...

Muscovy-Russia paid tribute to Crimean Khans until the Treaty of Constantinople was signed in...

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The Treaty of Constantinople was concluded on 13 July 1700. The Tsardom of Russia and the Ottoman Empire agreed on a truce set to expire...