What led Catherine, in 1763, to issue "The Anti-Prattle Decree"? Who would she need to silence and why?

During the early days of May 1113, shortly after the death of the Prince Svyatopolk Izyaslavich, unrest broke out in Kiev.

May 8 marks the 300th anniversary of the official inauguration of St. Petersburg as the capital of the Russian state.

A look back 100 years ago, at the celebrations of the 300th anniversary of Romanov rule. Few would have guessed from these celebrations, that the tsar had just four years to rule.

In March 1863, Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin offered a biting critique of contemporary literature that is as humorous as it is significant.

History offered Zoe Paleologue little hope. Her homeland overrun, her royal pedigree in tatters... And then the Tsar of all the Russias needed a new wife...

A look back at the genius that was Mandelstam, on the 100th anniversary of the publication of his first book of poetry.

Sixty years ago Stalin died and the Soviet Union was in collective shock. So much has been written about this event that we decided to take a different tack, offering a selection of first person accounts from that time.

Orest Kiprensky was one of Russia's finest early nineteenth-century painters. We share a painting he created in 1813.

In 1963, a remarkable, bright, beloved film was released, launching the careers of Nikita Mikhalkov and Georgy Danilya: Walking the Streets of Moscow.

Extract from Anna Akhmatova's "Poem Without a Hero", in which she eulogized the year 1913.

They could not have known it at the time, but they were on the edge of the abyss. Revolution, war, and again war and revolution were just around the corner. But in February 1903, a grand ball was held to commemorate the 290th anniversary of the Romanov dynasty.