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

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

Catherine wasn't called “The Great” for nothing. Though she was one of the most enlightened women in the world, behind closed doors was a very different story. In the end, Catherine earned her title ...

History is full of sweeping love affairs, from Antony and Cleopatra to Catherine the Great and Grigory Potemkin and many more ...

Denis Diderot, at Catherine the Great’s insistent invitation ... compromised himself by writing an adulatory history of Peter the Great, relying largely on material supplied by the Empress Elizaveta.) ...

the empress Maria Theresa – Catherine the Great stands out as an empire-builder, a larger-than-life, exceptionally astute, lucky and energetic politician. One of only three Russian rulers to be ...

actually – but I can't be sure if I'm Russian or Ukrainian. I can't be 100% sure because my father and grandfather were Don Cossacks. Many Don Cossacks are actually of Ukrainian origin, because ...

In citing this "Potemkin version" of law, Scruton refers to the supposed tricky practice of Prince Grigori Aleksandrovich Potemkin when acting as chief minister to Empress Catherine the Great of ...

The long reign of German-born empress Catherine the Great (d. 1796) saw the influx of perhaps a million Jews into Russia, and was marked by her giving them their first political rights in Europe. She ...

Russian authorities have zealously prosecuted people with links to Aleksei A. Navalny’s organization inside Russia in the ...

Behind the scenes of 'The Empress', Netflix’s popular historical drama - from the sets and filming locations to costumes, stunts, and the approach the cast took to portraying this fascinating ...

A bitter and bloody war in Ukraine has devastated the country, further isolated Russia from the West and fueled economic insecurity around the world. President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine met ...