Russian literature has always been known for its gigantic 19th century novels, but many of the same authors of those doorstoppers were also masters of the short story. These stories, heartbreaking or ...

Xi Jinping may be reluctant to exercise China’s right to reclaim its historically Chinese territories today, but he must know ...

The 'Athens of Perm' Sergei was born on March 31, 1872 in the former governorate of Novgorod in the northwest of the Russian Empire ... acquired in the mid-19th century by Sergei's grandfather.

By the middle of the 19th century, balls were widely arranged ... were the beginning of the end for the Russian Empire, and no more balls would be held in the imperial court.

Ignorance can be seen in the Russo-phobic publications in 19th century in which the authors had no idea ... The map of Turkestan basically resembles the borders of the former Russian empire. In the ...

Ranging from vast confederations on the Asian steppes to colonial projects that spanned the globe, these were the biggest ...

RUSSIAN FIELD MARSHAL Grigory Potemkin (1739-1791), portrait by Johann Baptist von Lampi the Elder, 19th century ... ago in the midst of the Russian Empire under the Romanov dynasty.

Two Belarusian poems from the 19th Century have been declared "extremist ... poems relate to a nationalist uprising against the Russian Empire. Authoritarian Belarus leader Alexander Lukashenko ...

A skeleton of a man with a thick beard and moustache dressed in a late 19th century military uniform with epaulettes was found in the coffin earlier ANKARA, May 22. /TASS/. Russian scientists have ...

Enjoying privileged access to local knowledge, Bobrovnikov came to view sharīʿa as an integral component of Kazakh legal culture in the nineteenth century. As we shall ... pursued systematically by ...

Germany’s leader has dropped plans to phase out a 19th century-era pneumatic tube system used to ferry secret documents to his office, as it is proving to be a crucial tool in evading Russian spies.

In the late 19th century, Georg Brandes made several ... it makes a mournful impression. In the last century, next to Paris, it was the most brilliant city in Europe; now it is a Russian provincial ...