Russian Orthodox crosses in the time-and-weather-worn cemetery of Ninilchik’s Holy Transfiguration of Our Lord Chapel are a testament to the heritage of the village. Nathaniel Wilder Every ...

Russia once controlled 20 percent of U.S. territory. That legacy helps explain its aggression against Ukraine.

You've no doubt heard the saying, "The sun never sets on the British Empire." This was true, until the 1920s when colonialism ...

Few realize that Russia established colonies in North America. But it's a fact that in the mid-18th century, Russia had begun encroaching into Alaskan territory. Eventually, the Russian Empire ...

Here's a map of New Russia: Wikimedia Commons The vast Russian empire peaked in 1866, when it included Ukraine, Finland, Alaska, Belarus, and others.

TATITLEK, Alaska — Steve Totemoff keeps faith alive in this tiny Alaskan village -- the Russian Orthodox faith. Totemoff, a native Aleut, keeps the faith when he caulks, paints, or replaces the ...

The U.S. purchased Alaska from Russia in March 1867 for $7.2 million in the aftermath of Russia's humiliating defeat at the hands of Britain, France and the Ottoman Empire during the Crimean War.

The U.S. purchased Alaska from Russia for $7.2 million in 1867. "The Congress of Vienna [of 1814-1815] conceded that Warsaw belongs to the Russian Empire. The Congress of Vienna conceded that ...

The State Department on Monday brushed off reports of Russian President Vladimir Putin ordering his government to look into the nation’s former “real estate” abroad, saying Alaska would be ...