In the nineteenth century, Russia was a European power but in many ... the fight to throw off serfdom. Tolstoy was only eighteen when he inherited the estate of Yasnaya Polyana, which means ...

Russia and the Napoleonic Wars; the failure of constitutional and social reform in the first quarter of the nineteenth century; the policies towards non-Russians within the empire; the Decembrist ...

This is the classic scene of a 19th Century painting that a Paris-born artist recently recreated with the help of Ukrainian troops now battling the Russian troops who invaded their country.