Moxel - Muscovy - Russia

"The Kremlin is not like any other palace, it is a city in itself; a city that forms the ioot of Moscow, and that...

"Their voices are hollow, primitive. The women have Chuvash and Mordvinian faces; and the men have criminal features that make them look like a...

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

Since the start of the Russo-Ukrainian war in 2014, one Russian phrase has haunted me. It translates to “They crucified a little boy...

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.

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

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

"In the midst of the fetes of Petersburg, I cannot forget the journey of Empress Catherine into the Crimea, and the facades of vilages,...

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

Harvard academic Dr. Richard Pipes who specialized in Russian history described in his most famous book published almost 50 years ago, the way Moscow...