For brevity, they were called ‘versts’. The road from Moscow, from the Kaluga outpost, to the residence of Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich in Kolomenskoye was marked with these very posts.

Irina Efremova, PhD in art history and the exhibition curator, told mos.ru about why ladies needed a ball book and how Grand ...

The dramatic end of Nicholas II’s reign in Russia was one of the turning points of the early 20th century. Could he have avoided his downfall?

The current tragic events on Ukraine, of course, requires a historiosophical understanding. In order to understand the causes ...

Russia has sentenced three lawyers who had defended Alexei Navalny to several years in prison for bringing messages from the late opposition leader from prison to the outside world. The sentences ...

Lawyers Igor Sergunin, from left, Alexei Liptser and Vadim Kobzev, all who once represented late opposition leader Alexei Navalny, stand in a courtroom in Petushki, Vladimir region, about 120 ...

Three lawyers who once represented the late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny were convicted by a court Friday as part of the Kremlin’s crackdown on dissent that has reached levels unseen ...