‘Kremlin’ derives from Tartar word for fortress
British traveler of the 18th century Dr. Clarke sounded very confident describing the etymology of the word 'Kremlin'. In his bestselling book 'Travels in...
Servile to superiors, haughty and cruel to their dependents – description of Russia 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...
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....
Russian Orthodox Church: Imposters and Murderers
According to the Wikipedia page, "On 5 January 2019, Bartholomew I, the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, signed the Tomos that officially recognized and established...
Russia is like a bloated toad ready to explode
A training center in Tambov, Russia, hung a banner showing a 'Russian empire' that included all of central and eastern Europe, a re-divided Germany,...
‘Dostoyevsky hated the Mongolian strain in the Russians,’ – Fyodor’s daughter Lyubov Dostoyevsky
Lyubov Dostoevskaya is best known for the book Dostoyevsky as Portrayed by His Daughter, originally published in Munich in 1920. The quotes below are from the 1922...
Russians are ‘lower in the scale of nature than the orangutan’, – Sir Winston...
"Few accuse Winston Churchill of naiveté, especially about the Soviet Union, yet his quarters, at Yalta and during previous meetings with Stalin, were also...
Kyiv Rus vs. Golden Horde: Catherine II’s curious details about the first battle at...
After Catherine II "the great" of Muscovy, died in 1796, among her papers, the 'Reflections on the Project of History of Russia' written in...
Russians hurl accusations at their victims in order to justify their own rancor; They...
"During his change of horse-relays, Turgenev asked to see Custine. There then ensued, presumably at the postal station, a most curious verbal exchange, the...
Dostoyevsky: ‘Scratch a Russian and you will find a Tartar’
The quote is taken from The Diary of a Writer: "I have said that Russians are disliked in Europe. That they are disliked, I...
