Born in Crimea and raised in Kherson, journalist Yevheniia Virlych grew up speaking both Ukrainian and Russian in her daily ...

And, truth be told, that discourse resonates in Russian society. In that Russian identity ... victory over Sweden and the proclamation of the empire. Vladimir Vladimirovich blessed the proposal ...

Commonly, the term describes the semi-official persecution of Jews in the Russian Empire that began in the early 1880s. With their situation in Russia basically hopeless, many Jewish families left ...

But the issue created by the second Russian revolution strikes at the very concept of human society as now organized ... human elements of the far-flung empire of the Tsars and you will begin ...

Europe and Russia's shifting stances during the Greek War of Independence and their influential roles in the conflict's ...

Russification was the policy of enforcing Russian culture on the vast numbers of ethnic minorities that lived in the Russian Empire. It greatly affected the Poles, Lithuanians and the Ukranians.

From 1741 until Alaska was sold to the United States in 1867, the Russian empire claimed territory and peoples in North America. In this book, Ilya Vinkovetsky examines how Russia governed its only ...

During her reign she extended the Russian empire southwards and westwards ... established them as a separate estate in Russian society and assured their privileges. Catherine therefore ignored ...