The painting shows the last minutes of one of ... Today, Ivan is better known as Ivan the Terrible, though the name wouldn’t be attached to him until much later. Ivan ruled as Russia’s ...

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

Ivan Kashinsky has traveled the world for Smithsonian magazine, but when disaster struck earlier this month, he rushed home ...

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

An art museum on the Left Bank of the Seine ... and freshness. In the 1550s, Ivan the Terrible ordered the construction of St. Basil’s Cathedral to commemorate the capture of Kazan and Astrakhan.

As someone who makes a living occasionally tasting spirits, one of my favorite phrases to use when describing liquor or wine ...

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

He successfully defended against Art Simonyan and Armando Guerrero, then, in December 2005, stopped Larios in just three rounds to win their rubber match. In June 2006, Vazquez stopped Ivan ...

Auschwitz, the largest Nazi concentration camp, was liberated 80 years ago. Here’s a brief description of the liberating troops discovered.

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

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 ...