Needing friendship, he brings to court Kolychev, now Philip the monk, and makes him metropolitan bishop of Moscow. Philip, however, takes his cues from the boyars and tries to bend Ivan to the ...

We all know Ivan IV’s sobriquet, but the story is more complicated than it might seem Teresa Nowakowski Daily Correspondent The Oprichniki by Nikolai Nevrev (1888). The painting shows the last ...

A Russian journalist who carried out high-profile investigations into corruption has been arrested in Moscow. Ivan Golunov, a 36-year-old reporter for the Latvia-based news site Meduza ...