Nicholas’s character was his fate, argues Hasegawa, and it was the fundamental absence of a higher purpose at its heart, ...

The summer of 2025 concert will mark an incredible 550 years of the world’s northernmost castle and is set to feature 89-year-old Finnish composer Aulis Sallinen’s movingly beautiful chronicle, Linna ...

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 ...

In Augustus the Strong: A Study in Artistic Greatness and Political Fiasco, Tim Blanning restores the ‘incorrigible Saxon’ to ...

Meanwhile, Baranov continues to supply the new Tsar with words and pictures for ... heir to Ivan the Terrible and Peter the Great and the hero of the Great Patriotic War. The young KGB man ...

in the 1700s by Tsar Peter the Great as a base for his navy, due to its excellent position on the Baltic Sea looking towards Europe.

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One such unusual tax was introduced in 1696 by King William III of England and Wales, which levied a tax on windows. People had to pay tax based on the number of windows in their homes.

the Cossack hero who tried in vain to release Ukraine from the grip of Tsar Peter the Great. But in the end it proved an unsatisfactory experience and on revisiting the subject of Vakula the Smith ...