Here is the first social history devoted to the common soldier in the Russian army during the first half of the 19th-century--an examination of soldiers as a social class and the army as a social ...

VDNKh visitors to learn about how the iconic work of Russian literature – Leo Tolstoy’s epic novel War and Peace — was ...

Images of Russian soldiers being armed with 19th century and WWI-era weapons have recently been circulating on social media, sparking anger among supporters of the Ukraine invasion. Prominent pro ...

This is the moment a Russian soldier cheated death by the barest margins by chucking his assault rifle at a Ukrainian drone that was a split second away from killing him. Footage taken from a ...

Russian literature has always been known for its gigantic 19th century novels, but many of the same authors of those doorstoppers were also masters of the short story. These stories, heartbreaking or ...

Members of a pacifist Christian sect that emerged in 18th century Russia were exiled to Georgia about 200 years ago for ...

A skeleton of a man with a thick beard and moustache dressed in a late 19th century military uniform with epaulettes was found in the coffin earlier ANKARA, May 22. /TASS/. Russian scientists have ...

This is the moment a Russian soldier blew up his unit's base before making a dramatic defection to Ukraine. Footage shows a first person view (FPV) drone pilot, known only by his call-sign 'Silver ...

"You don't have to tell me fairy tales about the terrible Putin, who is a bloody scoundrel and wants to conquer the whole of ...

A comment by a prominent campaigner has touched off a fevered debate over Russian influence in a former Soviet republic. It's not so often that Romantic poets set social media alight. But that's ...

Two Russian soldiers correctly predicted their deaths after being ordered on a suicide mission as punishment for arguing with their commander. The middle-aged drone operators, who had been ordered to ...

Two Russian soldiers correctly predicted their deaths after being ordered on a suicide mission as punishment for arguing with their commander. The middle-aged drone operators, who had been ordered ...