George F. Kennan’s Essay on De Custine’s ‘Russia in 1839’: the Best Book about...

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George F. Kennan (1904 – 2005) was an American diplomat and historian. He was best known as an advocate of a policy of containment of Soviet...

‘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...

The Rus are a Great Nation living on the coast of the Black Sea...

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...

Russia is like a bloated toad ready to explode

In 2024, a training center in Tambov, Russia, hung a banner showing a 'Russian empire' that included all of central and eastern Europe, a...

Rurik, ‘Founder of Rus’ Dynasty’, Never Existed: Moscow may have invented the whole story...

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Muscovy-’Russia’ clings to Rurik with such ferocity as if this figure affects not only its history, but the very right to be called a...

Russia always was Rotten Spot of Civilization

For people who think that the formation that calls itself "Russia" got bad only with midget Putin getting into office, or "broke bad" a...

The first known European leaflet depicting Russian/ Moscovite atrocities against women and children, 1561

“The earliest illustrated Livonian War pamphlet – “Sehr grewliche, erschröckliche, vor unerhörte, warhafftige Newe Zeitung was für grausame Tyrannei der Moscoviter …” which translates into English...

Kremlin, Sacred Asylum of Oriental Despotism, Palace of Tyrant, – Marquis de Custine in...

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"The Kremlin is not like any other palace, it is a city in itself; a city that forms the ioot of Moscow, and that...

Russia created a gigantic Jewish ghetto in Ukraine and Belarus 232 years ago: the...

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"On December 23, 1791, Catherine II (“the Great”), the empress of Russia, authorized the creation of the Pale of Settlement, an area in the...

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...