Moxel - Muscovy - Russia

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

Harvard Professor Richard Pipes stated in his 'Russia Under the Old Regime': "The Golden Age of the Orthodox Church in Russia coincided with Mongol...

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

"The picture of Russian manners varies little with reference to the prince or the peasant. The first nobleman in the empire, when dismissed by...

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

The "Gardariki, Ukraine" e-book below explains why it is so.

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...

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

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