Moxel - Muscovy - Russia

The map was made by a famous German geographer and cartographer Johann Baptist Homann. The map is valuable not just because it can serve as...

In 1892, a prominent maritime painter of Armenian descent born in Crimea, Ivan Aivazovsky (1817–1900), made a gift to the Corcoran Gallery in Washington,...

Muscovy-’Russia’ clings to Rurik with such ferocity as if this figure affects not only its history, but the very right to be called a...

Per Wikipedia, 'The Tale of Igor's Campaign' is an anonymous epic poem written in the Old East Slavic language. Britannica calls the poem 'The...

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

“The bloody mire of the Mongolian slavery, not the rude glory of the Norman epoch, forms the cradle of Muscovy, and modern Russia is...

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.

The Chronicle of Novgorod published in 1914 is an invaluable document for many reasons. One of them is that it was redacted by Prof....

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...

“According to the annals of Kyiv Rus, four territorial princes with throne towns on the rivers Desna and Seim, east of Chernigiv, set out...