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...
How Moscow Became Capital in 1327 and what the Golden Horde had to do...
Harvard academic Dr. Richard Pipes who specialized in Russian history described in his most famous book published almost 50 years ago, the way Moscow...
Phony ‘Potemkin villages’ explain a lot about Russian mindset, – Marquis de Custine in...
"In the midst of the fetes of Petersburg, I cannot forget the journey of Empress Catherine into the Crimea, and the facades of vilages,...
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...
American humanitarian aid during Russian Famine of 1891‒92
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,...
German leaflet of 1561 depicting Russian/Muscovite war atrocities in the area of present-day Latvia...
"The earliest illustrated Livonian War pamphlet – “Sehr grewliche, erschröckliche, vor unerhörte, warhafftige Newe Zeitung was für grausame Tyrannei der Moscoviter ...” which translates...
‘Ignorant, superstitious, cunning, brutal, barbarous, dirty, mean’ – Dr. Clarke’s description of Russians 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...
Slavs originated in Ukraine and Belarus. They replaced 80% of local gene pool in...
According to the Early Slavs - Wikipedia page, “A 2025 comprehensive archaeogenetic study published in Nature on 555 samples out of which 359 from the...
Europeans perceive in Russians barbarians ‘rejoicing over the thought that something somewhere may be...
The quote is taken from The Diary of a Writer: "I have said that Russians are disliked in Europe. That they are disliked, I...
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...
