Moxel - Muscovy - Russia

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

Edward Daniel Clarke (1769-1822) was a British traveler whose book 'Travels in Russia' became a bestseller in Europe and was republished several times even...

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

Richard Pipes (July 11, 1923 – May 17, 2018) was an American academic who specialized in Russian and Soviet history. In 1976, he headed...

Harvard Professor Richard Pipes starts a new chapter of his book "Russia Under the Old Regime" with the following quote of Sigismund Herberstein, a...

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

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...

In the year 1254, King of France Louis IX sent an emissary to Batu Khan, who had his camp at the Volga River. The...

The world needs to be cured of Russia, the first president of post-Soviet Lithuania said Friday. “Russia has become a cancer of Europe and 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...