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...
Voltaire described the effect of Muscovite Orthodox religion: Encouragement to Wickedness
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.
Moscow was not founded in 1147 by Yury Dolgoruky. The name ‘Moskva’ is likely...
The Chronicle of Novgorod published in 1914 is an invaluable document for many reasons. One of them is that it was redacted by Prof....
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...
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...
Ancient Kyiv Spoke ‘Direct Ancestor’ of the Ukrainian Language, famous linguist A. Krymsky proved....
Agathangel Krymsky (1871-1942) was a polyglot who was fluent in 35 languages (some estimates put it at up to 60), including Arabic, Persian, Turkish,...
Russia’s Modus Operandi in Exterminating Smaller Nations: Poland, Baltics, Ukraine
Edward Daniel Clarke (1769-1822) was a British traveler whose book 'Travels in Russia' became a bestseller in Europe and was republished several times even...
‘In Russia cannot be even one man who would not be addicted to lying,”...
"Lately, I was suddenly struck by the thought that in Russia, among our educated classes, there cannot be even one man who wouldn't be...
‘Ukraine or the Cossacks Land’ map of 1720
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...
‘Russia, Prison of Peoples’ term was coined by de Custine in 1839
Marquis de Custine in his La Russie en 1839 coined the description of Russia as the prison of the peoples. Below are the quotes from...
