refers to an area north of the Black Sea that was gradually conquered by Russia in the late 18th century through peace treaties with the Cossack Hetmanate and the Ottoman Empire. In 1922 it was ...

Pro-Russian officials say they have removed the bones of famed 18th century Russian commander Grigory ... of a peace agreement with the Ottoman Empire. He was subsequently awarded the rank of ...

Susan Layton: Russian national consciousness began developing in the 18th century ... elite was beginning to form a mental map of the multinational empire, as this vast and colorful conglomerate ...

threatening to loosen ties with Kiev or even return to Russian rule. In the 18th Century, it was part of the Turkish Ottoman Empire, ruled by the Khan of the Crimean Tatars. This 1769 map shows ...

referring to the Northern Wars which Peter launched at the turn of the 18th Century as he forged a new Russian Empire. "But he seized nothing; he reclaimed it!" he said, arguing that Slavs had ...

In the 18th century French "conquered ... inter alia, in Russia. The number of émigrés in that period reached 15,000. The government of the Russian Empire treated any revolution with suspicion ...

In the late 18th century the Russian empire broke up the Polish-Lithuanian ... stretched from the Sea of Japan to the Baltic (see map 4). Ukraine’s territory expanded during the Soviet period.