Soviet secret police shot writer Isaac Babel in Moscow’s Lubyanka prison for no particular reason Jan. 27, 1941, at one of those pre-dawn hours when babies are born and old men die. Babel wasn ...

In 'Red Sky At Noon,' A Western On The Eastern Front Simon Sebag Montefiore's new novel, set during World War II, ... and they were known as the Red Cossacks. ...

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Loyal to the Romanovs (including Nicholas II, who in 1918 was executed in an Ekaterinburg basement), the Cossacks sided with the White Armies during the Russian civil war, and after the Red ...

The Cossacks came for me this week. Well, they came because of something nice. That’s my Leo moon, trying to look on the bright side. The nice thing being that our recording of the country ...

Simon Sebag Montefiore's new novel, set during World War II, follows a Jewish political prisoner who's pressed into a battalion of convicts and Cossacks and sent to fight the Nazis on horseback.

Simon Sebag Montefiore's new novel, set during World War II, follows a Jewish political prisoner who's pressed into a battalion of convicts and Cossacks and sent to fight the Nazis on horseback.