Catherine II, the butcher of the Polish Commonwealth: Suvorov troops and Warsaw Massacre of...

The painting of Aleksander Orlowski portrays the massacre that the troops of Russian General Suvorov committed in one of the suburbs of the Polish...

‘They Fought Each Other for Unity’ oxymoron: Moscow’s Attack on Novgorod Republic in 1471...

Per Wikipedia, the Battle of Shelon was a battle between the forces of the Duchy of Moscow under Ivan III (r. 1462–1505) and the...

Veche Assembly of Kyiv Rus: Scandinavians had a similar tradition, Muscovites never did

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Per Wikipedia, Veche was a popular assembly during the Middle Ages. The veche is mentioned during the times of Kyiv Rus and it later became a powerful institution in Russian cities...

Devilish cruelty is the most striking feature of the Russian national character, – Maxim...

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Maxim Gorky (1868 –1936) was a Russian and Soviet writer who was nominated five times for the Nobel Prize in Literature. In 1922, Gorky published 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...

‘Keeping Pledge to Hitler’: How Moscow allied with Nazis and started WW2

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:...

Kyiv Rus vs. Golden Horde: Catherine II’s curious details about the first battle at...

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After Catherine II "the great" of Muscovy, died in 1796, among her papers, the 'Reflections on the Project of History of Russia' written in...

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...

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...

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...