Napoleon’s View of His Russian Campaign: only extreme and premature winter spoiled our triumph
Discourse at the Opening of the Legislative Body. Palais des Tuileries, Feb. 14, 1813. "I entered Russia. The French armies were constantly victorious on the...
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...
Kyiv Rus vs. Golden Horde: Catherine II’s curious details about the first battle at...
After Catherine II "the great" of Muscovy, died in 1796, among her papers, the 'Reflections on the Project of History of Russia' written in...
‘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...
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...
Russian peasants are worn-out folks with emaciated faces, uncombed hair dressed in zipuns full...
In his 1898 short story “The Cossack Way,” Ivan Bunin writes: “I liked the khokhly very much at first sight. I immediately noticed the...
Russians are ‘lower in the scale of nature than the orangutan’, – Sir Winston...
"Few accuse Winston Churchill of naiveté, especially about the Soviet Union, yet his quarters, at Yalta and during previous meetings with Stalin, were also...
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...
Russia is a ‘cancer’ that could destroy the world, Lithuania’s first post-Soviet leader says
The world needs to be cured of Russia, the first president of post-Soviet Lithuania said Friday. “Russia has become a cancer of Europe and the...
How Russia brought about World War Two
After World War I, the Treaty of Versailles limited the German Army number to 100 thousand men and forbade Germany from producing or purchasing...
