At the height of the Russian empire, in the 19th century ... becomes so great that there is talk of the emergence of an alternative Russian civil society,” he writes. “The Russian diaspora ...

On September 10, 1721, the peace treaty that ended the Great Northern War was signed in the Finnish city of Nystad, which for ...

The course provides an introduction to the history of the Russian empire from the latter half of the seventeenth century to the death of Alexander I in 1825. This period is commonly considered to be ...

FADEL: So do you see your book, this book, "War And Punishment," as the alternative ... So it's not the history of Ukraine. It's the history of Russian empire oppressing Ukraine.

The first two statues are dedicated to the eighteenth-century rulers who established Russia as an empire on the ... that has defined the Russian state for so much of its history.

Vladimir Putin is going on a property hunt, ordering officials to find Russian assets that once belonged to its former empire or were owned by the Soviet Union. An order from the Russian president ...

Senokosov once told me he could not eat Russian black bread because the taste reminded him of the poverty and tragedy of his Soviet childhood. Empire ... emergence of an alternative Russian ...