We all know Ivan IV’s sobriquet, but the story is more complicated than it might seem Teresa Nowakowski Daily Correspondent The Oprichniki by Nikolai Nevrev (1888). The painting shows the last ...

Ilya Repin was one of the greatest Realist painters of the Russian Empire. Born in present-day Ukraine, he traveled ...

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 ...

Since the start of the Russo-Ukrainian war in 2014, one Russian phrase has haunted me. It translates to “They [Ukrainians] ...

MARINE HUGONNIER‘s films, photographs, and works on paper explore the politics of vision, interrogating the gaze and methods of image production through a research-based practice influenced by ...

How do you define a cult classic? Is it a shoestring exploitation film from the world of Ed Wood? Off-beat movies made ...

The Film at Lincoln Center press statement applauded Eggers’ own contributions to cinema history ... his own charisma as an instrument of terrible power. 16mm collection print courtesy ...

To learn the history of a new destination ... and freshness. In the 1550s, Ivan the Terrible ordered the construction of St. Basil’s Cathedral to commemorate the capture of Kazan and Astrakhan.

Most of them are in ruins and are accompanied by myths and popular beliefs, which link them to horrible stories of people who ...

He was one of the most dominant closers of all time Every club has made at least one terrible signing ... arguably the hardest pitcher to hit in MLB history. 3. Voters have been kind to closers ...

It’s apparition time: 5:40 p.m. In a small Roman Catholic chapel in Bosnia and Herzegovina, in the village of Medjugorje, Ivan Dragicevic ... Madonna—a revered painting of a dark-skinned ...