Rostov, an old Russian town northeast of Moscow, stood as the capital of Kyivan princes who moved into Russia. The photograph here shows the intricacies of a ceramic porcelain stove, photographed ...

Consequently, Russia became an empire with St. Petersburg as its capital city. Up until 1918 St. Petersburg was the capital of the Russian Empire and a symbol of its greatness.

The Governorate of Estonia with its capital Reval (modern Tallinn) was, from 1721, part of the Russian Empire. After the Revolution this third Baltic state became an independent country.

On September 10, 1721, the peace treaty that ended the Great Northern War was signed in the Finnish city of Nystad, which for two decades pitted the Russian Tsardom against the Swedish Empire.

300 years ago, on October 22 (November 2), 1721, at the end of the victorious Great Northern War with Sweden, the Russian kingdom was proclaimed an Empire. This happened when Tsar Peter the Great ...

The 100-year anniversary of the Russian Revolution is an awkward moment for Vladimir Putin, who would rather not remind people of the power of dissent.

The wedding took place at St. Isaac's Cathedral in St. Petersburg, the former capital of the Russian empire, Reuters reports. The Romanov family first came to power in 1613 with Mikhail Romanov, ...