Russian-Germans Anastassia Boutsko / nh 07/21/2013 July 21, 2013. 250 years ago, Russia’s tsarina Catherine the Great signed a manifesto inviting foreigners to settle in her country.

After my article about the NATO summit, which was in fact more a publicity show than anything else, I would like to give a ...

On the morning of November 2, 2022, Green Leaf activist Vladislav Balinskyi redecorated a local monument to Russian tsarina Catherine the Great by placing an executioner's hood on her head and a ...

Move over Catherine the Great, Anna of Russia is in town. This hard-living, bitter-hearted Tsarina may not be as well known as the so-called Great, but she has more debauched antics and cruel ...

The drones on display look impressive but they may have something in common with the Potemkin Villages apparently built in the 18 th century by a Russian nobleman to impress Tsarina Catherine the ...

The rebel leader was a Cossack named Yemelyan Pugachev, his nemesis was the Tsarina Catherine the Great, and the novel — The Captain’s Daughter by Alexander Pushkin — was published a whole ...

On July 17, 1918, the reigning members of Russia's last ruling royal family, the Romanovs—Tsar Nicholas II, his wife Tsarina Alexandra, and their five children, Olga, Tatiana, Maria, Anastasia ...

On July 17, 1918, the reigning members of Russia's last ruling royal family, the Romanovs—Tsar Nicholas II, his wife Tsarina Alexandra, and their five children, Olga, Tatiana, Maria, Anastasia ...

Catherine the Great by Levitsky, on display at Hillwood Estate. The portrait was presented by the Tsarina to her banker in Amsterdam, Henry Thomas Hope (who later owned Hope Diamond). Contained within ...

Nicholas and Alexandra at Tsarskoe Selo in the spring of 1917. Nicholas, after abdicating, was placed under house arrest. Public Domain The Russian Imperial Family on the steps of the Catherine ...