Moxel - Muscovy - Russia

In 1892, a prominent maritime painter of Armenian descent born in Crimea, Ivan Aivazovsky (1817–1900), made a gift to the Corcoran Gallery in Washington,...

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...

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

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

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,...

Since the start of the Russo-Ukrainian war in 2014, one Russian phrase has haunted me. It translates to “They crucified a little boy...

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

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

"Russians… tread in the steps of European elegance, without knowing that refinement of habits has no value except as it announces the existence of...

The quote is taken from The Diary of a Writer: "I have said that Russians are disliked in Europe. That they are disliked, I...