It is well overdue that this particular rumour about Russian empress Catherine the Great is sent to the glue factory ...

Catherine wasn't called “The Great” for nothing. Though she was one of the most enlightened women in the world, behind closed ...

Catherine the Great moved to a foreign land as a teenager and became one of the most important leaders in history. Known for ...

A con artist who was able to take power by spreading misinformation his supporters adhered to even when it was clearly false.

A copper coin discovered by a schoolchild in a park in Espoo last month is believed to be about 230 years old. A local ...

In 1717, Peter the Great commissioned a building for his wife, Catherine, who succeeded him after his death, but her namesake palace only began taking on its grand stature in 1743, when their ...

Vladimir Putin is merely the latest in a series of murderous modernizers stretching from Ivan the Terrible and Peter the ...

Russian officials cheered the phone call between Trump and Putin as a victory for their view that the United States and ...

Far from being a traditionalist, Russian President Vladimir Putin is merely the latest in a series of murderous modernizers stretching from Ivan the Terrible and Peter the Great to Catherine the Great ...

Catherine the Great founded the Hermitage Museum in 1764 as a place to house her private art collection. The main museum complex comprises six buildings, including the Winter Palace, which was the ...

Elon Musk, who is doing much of the crushing, has said that he thinks about the fate of the Roman empire every day and ...

Over the next two decades it became Russia’s equivalent of Amazon. Customers from Siberia to the Crimean Peninsula (which was ...