In her new book, Karen Elliott House chronicles Mohammed bin Salman's rise and his vision of economic transformation.

From 1925, when the Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic was declared a part of the Soviet Union, one photographer was able to capture the “radical social surgery” enacted by the Bolsheviks that forever ...

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Czar Peter the Great of Russia casts a long shadow over history. A giant of a man, with appetites for learning and adventure to match, he did more to modernize his country than pretty much any ...

In Moscow's Tretyakov Gallery hangs perhaps the most well-known picture of Russia's most well-known ruler. Dimitri Levitsky's 1780 'Portrait of Catherine the Great in the Justice Temple' depicts ...

The flagship of the Russian Navy, Pyotr Veliky or 'Peter the Great', is the largest operational warship in the world that isn’t an aircraft carrier.

3. Catherine the Great reformed education in Russia. When Catherine became empress, education was inconsistent, unreliable, and exclusively available for those who could afford it.

Peter was very receptive to using western technologies to drive his modernisation of the Russian state – his city, St Petersburg, was often described as Russia’s “window on the west”.