Ivan and Peter Kireyevsky were typical Russian intellectuals. Except that they weren't...

Alexander Nevsky's victory over the Livonians on Lake Chudskoye (Peipus) has taken on the status of legend in Russian history. But Nevsky may not be the best of Russian heroes.

The sailors at Kronstadt were some of the staunchest allies of the Bolshevik revolutionaries. And they were one of the first to revolt.

What led Alexander II to become the great Tsar Liberator? What held his predecessors back? The answer in both cases may be simple fear.

The rise of Lefortovo estate as a center of power and activity under the tsars is hard to imagine, given the current state of the bleak park that now inhabits this Moscow region.

The Union of Salvation was the predecessor of the Decembrist movement, doomed by the tsar it sought to serve.

Double agent or simply agent provocateur? Yevno Azef was one of the first instigators of terrorism and had a life as mysterious as it was despicable.

Archbishop Gennady and the struggle between Church, State and one of the many reasons there was no Reformation in Russia.

Biography of Peter the Great's right hand man, who lived out his final years in disgrace and penury.

A history of Ivan the Terrible's retreat to a little village outside Moscow, where he set up the oprichniki and razed boyar power.

Russian Democracy found its first legs in the 1905 October Manifesto, issued under duress by Nicholas II. But it would not be enough to ensure Russia a democratic future...

On September 1, 1700, the old way of counting years, starting from the end of fall harvest time, ended, and Russia switched to a New Year that began in January.