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 ...

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 ...

Catherine the Great: individual empress, mother of the Russian Renaissance, and the longest-ruling female monarch of Russia.

Novosibirsk (Agenzia Fides) - On Sunday 2 February, the German Jesuit Father Stephan Lipke ... province of the Catholic Church in Russia with its widely scattered and mostly small Catholic communities ...

Denis Diderot, at Catherine the Great’s insistent invitation ... it was not until Stalin came to power that a Russian ruler once more tried to do business with philosophers. Both Catherine and Stalin, ...

One of only three Russian rulers to be awarded the sobriquet ‘the Great’, Catherine, like Peter the Great, polarises biographers. Most historians who compare the Russia she inherited (or usurped) in ...

President Donald Trump has signed a series of executive actions, revoking 78 of Joe Biden’s policies, hours after returning to the White House. The 47th US president ordered a crackdown on immigration ...

Orban, a nationalist who has criticized European Union sanctions on Russia and maintained close ... A new president in the US, a great patriotic faction in Brussels… the grand offensive can ...