Moxel - Muscovy - Russia

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,...

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:...

“The bloody mire of the Mongolian slavery, not the rude glory of the Norman epoch, forms the cradle of Muscovy, and modern Russia is...

The map was made by a famous German geographer and cartographer Johann Baptist Homann. The map is valuable not just because it can serve as...

"Few accuse Winston Churchill of naiveté, especially about the Soviet Union, yet his quarters, at Yalta and during previous meetings with Stalin, were also...

Philip II of Moscow (1507 - 1569) Russian Orthodox monk, who became Metropolitan of Moscow during the reign of Ivan the Terrible. He was one of a few Metropolitans who dared openly to contradict royal authority, and it is widely believed that the Tsar had him murdered on that account.

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

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

Since the start of the Russo-Ukrainian war in 2014, one Russian phrase has haunted me. It translates to “They crucified a little boy...

al-Masudi (c. 896–956), was a historian, geographer, and traveler. He is sometimes referred to as the 'Herodotus of the Arabs'. A polymath and prolific author of over twenty works on theology, history (Islamic...