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.

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"We'll see if he breaks his teeth or not. It's an amazing thing," Yevgeny Popov, Russian state TV host and propagandist, said.

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

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

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

Patriarch Kirill is speeding up procedures to achieve the canonisation of the most victorious commander in Russian history by ...

Russia’s palatial institution is now the second largest in the world, with an impressive collection of three million objects ...

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