spoke of the Russian state as “The Holy Russian Empire.” In the 17th century, the historical epic “The Tale of the Siege of Azov” recalled the times of the epic heroes, the “bogatyrs of Holy Rus’.” ...

In a word, visualize the component human elements of the far-flung empire of the Tsars ... was not a priest of the Russian Church, nor was he even in holy orders at any time, but was one of ...

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 ...

The Mufti spoke of the common defence of the “Bulgar kingdom and the Russian Empire,” giving the current ... The great task of the holy tsar was illustrated by the head of the Orthodox ...

Whether in the form of the Russian Empire, the Soviet Union or the Russian Federation today, the occupants of the Kremlin have been driven by a desire to be recognised as a “Great Power”.

Napoleon’s edict barring trade with Great Britain was ruining the Russian economy ... more than 600,000 men from every corner of his empire. Napoleon prophesied the war would be over in twenty ...

Reporter and writer of "Putin's endgame: The stakes beyond Ukraine" Kevin Tibbles joins José Díaz-Balart to share his insight and expertise on Russia's war and what Russian President Putin's ...

TASS/. A dress named 'The Crown of the Russian Empire' has been selected as the national costume for Russian contestant Anna Linnikova during the Miss Universe 2022 beauty pageant in the United ...

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.

A plane with a delegation of the Foundation of St. Andrew the First-Called that left Israel with a part of the Holy Fire from ... representatives of various Russian dioceses will take it to ...