Muscovy-Russia, Ugly Replica of the Golden Horde

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Famous travel-blogger of the 18th century Edward Clarke in his bestselling book 'Travels in Russia, Tartary and Turkey' repeated the facts about Muscovy that...

Russian ‘Czar’ title is of Oriental origin, – Marquise de Custine

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"The princes who now possess this sacred asylum of oriental despotism call themselves Europeans, because they have chased the Calmucs, their brethren, their...
Russians of the 18th century

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...

Russian nation is like a slave who standing on his knees dreams of the...

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This nation − at its heart conquering, greedy by dint of deprivation − atones in advance, at home, through a debasing submission, in...

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...

Muscovy-Russia: Replica of the Golden Horde

Harvard academic Dr. Richard Pipes who specialized in Russian history described in his most famous book the way Moscow became the capital of the...

Russian peasants are worn-out folks with emaciated faces, uncombed hair dressed in zipuns full...

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In his 1898 short story “The Cossack Way,” Ivan Bunin writes: “I liked the khokhly very much at first sight. I immediately noticed the...

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...

Ivan IV the Terrible was not a Tzar. Forged title credentials

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The Wikipedia page on the Fire of Moscow in 1571, has the following information: "In 1561, Muscovites "received a letter from the Patriarch of...

The Russians of our times are the worthy children of the subjects of Ivan...

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"The social, intellectual, and political state of present Russia is the result, and, so to speak, the resume, of the reigns of Ivan IV.,...