Ivan IV the Terrible was not a Tzar. Forged title credentials
The Wikipedia page on the Fire of Moscow in 1571, has the following information: "In 1561, Muscovites "received a letter from the Patriarch of...
‘Ignorant, superstitious, cunning, brutal, barbarous, dirty, mean’ – Dr. Clarke’s description of Russians 200...
"The picture of Russian manners varies little with reference to the prince or the peasant. The first nobleman in the empire, when dismissed by...
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,...
After the Warsaw Uprising in November of 1830, Moscow declared that the Poles form...
The editors of Edward Clarke's Travels in Russia, Tartary and Turkey published in 1839 in Edinburgh by William and Robert Chambers described the events...
Original Rus was centered in Kyiv, Chernihiv, and Pereyaslavl only; Even Novgorod was NOT...
Academician Borys Rybakov (1908-2001) was a Soviet and Russian archeologist and historian who held a Chair in Russian history at Moscow University since 1939,...
‘Russia, Prison of Peoples’ term was coined by de Custine in 1839
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...
American humanitarian aid during Russian Famine of 1891‒92
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,...
Voltaire depicted Muscovies-Russians of his time: born the slaves of masters as barbarous as...
Voltaire (1694-1778) was a French Enlightenment writer, philosopher, satirist, and historian. One of Voltaire's best-known histories is History of Charles XII (1731). The quotes below are taken...
Peter I was known as Tzar of Moscovy until he captured the heartland of...
In the previous article, we quoted a famous British writer John Evelyn whose property Peter I destroyed while living in it for three months. Notably, John...
‘The Tale of Igor’s Campaign’ is a Ukrainian epic about repelling Asiatic forces including...
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...
