Mongolian slavery, NOT democratic Kyiv Rus, formed Muscovy-Russia
“The bloody mire of Mongolian slavery, not the rude glory of the Norman epoch, forms the cradle of Muscovy, and modern Russia is but...
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...
Catherine II (‘the Great’) employed utmost artifice to keep secret the true history of...
Edward Daniel Clarke (1769-1822) wrote in his famous book 'Travels in Russia' which became a bestseller in 19th-century Europe: "There is nothing in which the...
Devilish cruelty is the most striking feature of the Russian national character, – Maxim...
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...
Rurik, ‘Founder of Rus’ Dynasty’, Never Existed: Moscow may have invented the whole story...
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...
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...
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...
‘Ukraine’ and ‘Muscovy’ names in a 1650 book title by French engineer Beauplan
According to Wikipedia, Guillaume Le Vasseur de Beauplan (c. 1600 – 1673) was a French-Polish cartographer, engineer and architect. Beauplan served as artillery captain for the army of the Crown of the Kingdom...
Secret of Moscovy’s Extraordinary Expansion to current ‘Russia’ borders? Slavery
Harvard Professor Richard Pipes starts a new chapter of his book "Russia Under the Old Regime" with the following quote of Sigismund Herberstein, a...
Russian peasants are worn-out folks with emaciated faces, uncombed hair dressed in zipuns full...
In his 1898 short story “The Cossack Way,” Ivan Bunin writes: “I liked the khokhly very much at first sight. I immediately noticed the...
