The roller coaster has its origins in St. Petersburg, Russia ... advances in coaster technology throughout the early 19th century, but oddly enough, they seemed to lose interest just as they ...

During 300 years of autocratic rule, the Romanovs created the largest land empire in history, extending their grip over a ...

Like many other Western customs, balls were brought to Russia by Peter the ... Source: The State Russian museum, St. Petersburg. By the middle of the 19th century, balls were widely arranged ...

As Russia enters its 20th year under the authoritarian leadership of Vladimir Putin, St Petersburg's vegan ... the novelist Leo Tolstoy in the late 19th Century. But for much of the Soviet period ...

Marius Petipa (pictured, right), the god and hero of the 19th century St. Petersburg ballet ... Gorsky presented it as the last spark of Russia's Silver Age and era of modernism; in a 1930s ...

This print is nearly a direct copy (with some variation in the details of the sleigh) of the wood engraving “Going to the ...

constructed under Peter the Great in 1710 to shelter the relics of the patron saint of St. Petersburg. Main attractions along Nevsky Prospekt include several 18th-century churches, such as the ...

I'm sitting in a 19th Century St Petersburg mansion ... this time to Russia to head an analytical centre at St Petersburg University. It's based in the exquisite mansion where I'm sitting.

The Russian authorities’ drive to revamp the country’s education system into a more explicitly patriotic endeavor has found a ...

President Volodymyr Zelenskiy's administration accuses the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of spreading pro-Russian propaganda in ...

But what does this grim state of affairs tell us about the mind and mood of a man who ascended from the rough and tumble of ...

Taiwan’s president made a genius suggestion a last week. In an interview with a local television station, Lai Ching-te said, with respect to China’s revanchist pretensions to control his ...