‘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:...
Moxel, ‘race of pure pagans’ to the north of Rus described by Willliam of...
William of Rubruck was a Flemish Franciscan missionary and explorer. In 1248, he accompanied King Louis IX of France on the Seventh Crusade. On...
Russian ‘Czar’ title is of Oriental origin, – Marquise de Custine
"The princes who now possess this sacred asylum of oriental despotism call themselves Europeans, because they have chased the Calmucs, their brethren, their...
Ivan Bunin describes Russian faces: no need branding them ‘Beware of Thief’
"Their voices are hollow, primitive. The women have Chuvash and Mordvinian faces; and the men have criminal features that make them look like a...
‘In Russia cannot be even one man who would not be addicted to lying,”...
"Lately, I was suddenly struck by the thought that in Russia, among our educated classes, there cannot be even one man who wouldn't be...
‘Ukraine’ and ‘Muscovy’ names in the 1669 issue of The London Gazette
The London Gazette - Wikipedia is one of the official journals of record or government gazettes of the Government of the United Kingdom, and...
‘Russians enjoy Slavery more than Freedom,’ – German Diplomat Sigismund von Herberstein in ‘Notes...
Sigismund von Herberstein (1486–1566) was a diplomat, writer, historian, and member of the Holy Roman Empire Imperial Council. He was most noted for his extensive writing on...
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...
Phony ‘Potemkin villages’ explain a lot about Russian mindset, – Marquis de Custine in...
"In the midst of the fetes of Petersburg, I cannot forget the journey of Empress Catherine into the Crimea, and the facades of vilages,...
The Russians of our times are the worthy children of the subjects of Ivan...
"The social, intellectual, and political state of present Russia is the result, and, so to speak, the resume, of the reigns of Ivan IV.,...
