Founded by priests and clergy fleeing the Russian Revolution in 1917, ROCOR is seen by many as the most conservative Orthodox ...

Eighty-five years ago, in the early morning hours of May 24, 1940, an attempt was made to assassinate Leon Trotsky, the great ...

The Queen, who has close ancestral ties with the last Tsar, Nicholas II, who was shot with his wife Alexandria and children ...

Russia will renovate Lenin's Mausoleum in Moscow, citing structural damage and age-related decay Read Full Article at RT.com ...

Lenin's Mausoleum, the iconic structure from whose rostrum generations of Soviet and Russian leaders have inspected parades ...

There is no reason why Pope Leo XIV would broker peace between Putin and Zelenskyy just because the president of America ...

With the suppression of the abortive uprising, Remnev was arrested on 5th July and held in the Kresty prison, in the same block as Trotsky (not actually a member of the Bolsheviks at this time), and ...

The old and funny song from 50 years ago helped to link the former Soviet Union antisemitism to the present day’s hatred of Jews in Europe, US and Canada.

Civilians and former generals, artists and engineers, government officials and successful businessmen – after the Russian revolution of 1917, millions of citizens fled Russia. They have lost ...

Vladimir Tretchikoff's iconic painting "Lady from the Orient" has sold for more than $1.7m in a new world record for the ...

Russian composer and pianist Sergei Rachmaninoff died in 1943, weeks after giving his final performance, at the University of ...

Alexander Chalenko’s An Up-to-Date History of Novorossiya (St. Petersburg, 2023) provides a useful insight into one of the ...