Ivan IV Vasilyevich was just a teenager when he was crowned czar and grand prince of all Russia on January 16, 1547. Today, Ivan is better known as Ivan the Terrible, though the name wouldn’t be ...

The life and times of Vladimir Romanov should be a movie by now, an epic tale of the son of a Red Army veteran who grew up to ...

Finland's community of approximately 1,500 Jews dates back to the 19th century when they arrived here to serve in the Russian ...

He is an esteemed historian—now a professor emeritus at the ... In the view of many historians, the czar’s decision to mobilize Russia’s troops in July 1914, and to enter World War I in ...

Now, after the fall of Bashar al-Assad's regime, many Syrians want to see Russian forces leave but their interim government says it is open to further cooperation. "Russia's crimes here were ...