After Germany defeated Russia in WW1, Moscow lost control of Ukraine and was to...
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk was a separate peace treaty signed on 3 March 1918 between Soviet Russia and the Central Powers (Germany, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire, and Bulgaria), by which Russia withdrew from World War...
Faces of Kyiv Rulers of the 11th c. AD on St. Sophia Frescos: Fair-haired...
In an attempt to rewrite and appropriate the history of Kyiv Rus, the Muscovites have insistently portrayed Kyiv rulers as bearded men. Take a...
Russian ‘renovation’ of Kyiv St. Sophia frescoes in 1850s became ‘an act of vandalism...
"In the summer of 1843, during Solntsev’s stay in Kyiv, a discovery in the Kyivan St. Sophia led to one of the most thorough...
Sevastopol – the city of Ukrainian Valor: Crimean War of 1854
Both Russian historical science and propaganda present the slogan “Sevastopol is the city of Russian glory” as an undeniable truth. They linked it, first...
Siege of Sevastopol during Crimean War of 1854: Its fall made Russia agree to...
The Siege of Sevastopol (1854–1855) (at the time called in English the Siege of Sebastopol) lasted from October 1854 until September 1855, during the Crimean War. The...
Treaty of Paris ending Crimean War was signed March 30, 1856. Russia repudiated it in 1870
Encyclopedia Britannica: Treaty of Paris, (1856), treaty signed on March 30, 1856, in Paris that ended the Crimean War. The treaty was signed between Russia on one side and France,...
The Crimean War of 1854: Russia’s backwardness exposed, War gamble ends in humiliation
Professor of History at the University of London Orlando Figes in his book Crimea: The Last Crusade described the consequences of the Crimean War...
Kyiv Hoard of 1842 found near Desiatynna Church: how a Russian stole Ukraine’s National...
L. V. Perars'ka, the Head of the Department of Medieval Kyiv at the Museum of Historical Treasures of Ukraine, and Special Research Assistant in...
Napoleon’s View of His Russian Campaign: only extreme and premature winter spoiled our triumph
Discourse at the Opening of the Legislative Body. Palais des Tuileries, Feb. 14, 1813. "I entered Russia. The French armies were constantly victorious on the...
Napoleon’s Letter to Alexander I of Russia about the Conflagration of Moscow: I do...
Napoleon's Letter to Alexander I of Russia: "Monsieur, my brother: Having been informed that the brother of your Imperial Majesty's Minister at Cassel was in...
