Russian Orthodox Church was formed by the Golden Horde

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

Dostoyevsky: ‘Scratch a Russian and you will find a Tartar’

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

‘Ukraine’ and ‘Muscovy’ names in a 1650 book title by French engineer Beauplan

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...

Russia should be renamed back to Muscovy, Ukraine insists

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Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova made a propaganda statement about the transformation of Ukraine into “anti-Russia.“The man in the bunker (that Zakharova calls...

How Peter I of Russia capitulated to Turks: Pruth Campaign

After the Poltava defeat, the wounded Charles XII of Sweden and Hetman Mazepa of Ukraine stayed in Moldova which was under the protection of...

Stalin-Hitler similarities and joint aims in WWII. Does Putin’s Russia have those traits now?

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: “On...

Around One million Russians fought for the German Nazis during WW2

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Russian Liberation Army known as the Vlasov Army was a collaborationist formation, primarily composed of Russians, that fought under German command during World War II. Since January 1945, the army...

‘Russians’ are the Volga Finns, not Slavs

Waiver: All nations are equal and the Finns are one of the most advanced nations in Europe these days. The reason for writing this...

Moscow appanage was insignificant until in 1276 the Mongols gave it to Nevsky’s son...

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

‘Russia, Prison of Peoples’ term was coined by de Custine in 1839

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Marquis de Custine in his La Russie en 1839 coined the description of Russia as the prison of the peoples. Below are the quotes from...