The course of Russian history would change. Russia would not be the first former empire to face a moment of historical reckoning. Spain’s 1898 defeat at the hands of the upstart Americans was a ...

believes Putin is inspired by the borders of the old Russian Empire, once one of the world’s great powers. And she says that to understand his motivations we need to go back to before the so ...

In 1907, the photographer decided to systematically document the Russian Empire, and he was given a specially equipped railroad car darkroom by Tsar Nicholas II for the project. To create his ...

With hindsight, we can see that the decline of the Russian empire has been one of the great drivers of European history over the past 40 years. And with foresight, we should expect it to remain ...

Putin’s Russia rests on an unsustainable contradiction. It is, at one and the same time, both a colony and an aspiring empire. It can’t be both, however, and sooner rather than later Russia ...

Abolition of Imereti Kingdom Russia managed only after the direct military aggression. The last king of Imereti Solomon II (1789-1810) was forced to escape to Osman Empire, where he died in 1815.

Russian imperial ambitions date back to the 16th century when the Grand Principality of Moscow, or Muscovy, proclaimed itself the third Rome, the successor of the Byzantine Empire and protector of ...