Mikhail Fyodorovich of Russia sitting with his boyars. Andrey Ryabushkin, 1893. Andrey Ryabushkin/State Tretyakov Gallery ...

This is a continuation of the ancient Russian tradition in which the Russians peasants believed they were ruled by a ‘Good Tsar, bad Boyars.’The beloved ruler was supposed to care about the ...

According to Olga Romanova, the head of Russia Behind Bars, a charity advocating for prisoners’ rights, out of 50,000 recruited inmates, only 10,000 were still fighting as of January 2023, on ...

Ms. Kuznetsova and Mr. Storyev are human rights experts who fled Russia. We both grew up in Russia in the early 2000s and lived through the country’s gradual slide into authoritarianism under ...

Back to basics. The Russian style may not have survived until the present day had it not been revived in the second half of the 19th century by the nobility, who - in search of a national idea and ...

Russia’s population density is one of the lowest in the world, and even European Russia has a lower population density than all European countries other than Finland and Sweden. Yet, even today’s ...

Ukraine launched a "large-scale" drone attack deep into Russian territory that security officials claim destroyed 40 military bombers as it gears up for another round of talks in Istanbul to ...

One of the Russian Aerospace Force's most advanced—and most expensive—combat aircraft was reported to have been damaged on Saturday in a raid carried out by Ukrainian forces. As reported by ...

The Romanov family ruled Russia from 1613 to 1917. They ascended the throne at the end of one of the most critical periods of Russian history, known as the Time of Troubles (1589 Ü 1613).