Muscovy-Russia on the map of the Mongolian Empire
Ex-Mongolian Leader Shares Empire Map to Mock Putin's Ukraine Claims Putin has relied on historical borders to argue Ukraine is part of Russia and to...
How Tzar of Moscovy Peter I displayed his barbarism in London
In 1698, Peter I was in London to acquire some personal insights into how the shipbuilding industry could be organized and run. A large...
‘Dostoyevsky hated the Mongolian strain in the Russians,’ – Fyodor’s daughter Lyubov Dostoyevsky
Lyubov Dostoevskaya is best known for the book Dostoyevsky as Portrayed by His Daughter, originally published in Munich in 1920. The quotes below are from the 1922...
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...
Servile to superiors, haughty and cruel to their dependents – description of Russia 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...
Hungary is shown its real “historic homeland”
With the start of Russia's war on Ukraine, the country of Hungary increased the sounds of its claims about its "Great Hungary" lands in...
Ivan Bunin describes Russian faces: no need branding them ‘Beware of Thief’
"Their voices are hollow, primitive. The women have Chuvash and Mordvinian faces; and the men have criminal features that make them look like a...
‘In Russia cannot be even one man who would not be addicted to lying,”...
"Lately, I was suddenly struck by the thought that in Russia, among our educated classes, there cannot be even one man who wouldn't be...
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...
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...
