ST. PETERSBURG, July 31. /TASS/. A mansion in central St. Petersburg in which the families of renowned Russian noblemen Naryshkin and Dolgorukov lived at various points in time will be put up for ...

His family had been wealthy and influential up until 1917, when the Russian nobility was taken down in the February Revolution. Newer versions of the story don’t place it in that period ...

Catherine II, or Catherine the Great , (ruled 1762 Ü1769) brought European neoclassical art and architecture to Russia, and French culture and language dominated the life of the nobility and the ...

He is a co-author, with Irina Borogan, of The New Nobility: The Restoration of Russia’s Security State and the Enduring Legacy of the KGB and The Compatriots: The Brutal and Chaotic History of ...