Full power was transferred to Ivan on his sixteenth birthday. Two weeks later, he married his first wife, Anastasia. There was nothing particularly terrible about Ivan’s early years on the throne.

Ivan the Terrible has the dubious distinction of developing one of the world’s first secret police organisations, the Oprichniki. These terrifying operatives were the ancestors of the likes of the ...

Time heals all wounds, it is said, and that certainly is the case in Russia. Moscow has unveiled a new statue of Joseph ...

Before the revolution of 1917, Iulii Martov was arguably a more prominent figure in Russia’s socialist movement than Vladimir ...

Ivan Shishkin's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 183 USD to 3,321,864 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork. Since 1999 the record ...