Nisbet Bain, in his life of Elizabeth of Russia, takes up a period in the history of that country which is comparatively unknown to us that is, the interlude after the days of Peter the Great ...

At the court dinners Peter entertained a mixed assemblage of shipwrights and other artisans, Generals, priests, Ministers of State, merchants, Ambassadors, ... View Full Article in Timesmachine ...

Focusing on Hetman Ivan Mazepa’s alliance with Charles XII of Sweden during the Great Northern War, we trace how Russia, under Peter the Great, crushed the Cossack Hetmanate. Learn how this ...

Season 3 of The Great sees Catherine, played by Elle Fanning, and Peter, played by Nicholas ... Catherine the Great expanded Russia. Under Catherine’s rule, Russia expanded by 200,000 square ...

The Kremlin's chief negotiator in talks with Ukraine on Friday cited the Great Northern War, Peter the Great’s 21-year war against Sweden, as evidence that Russia ... is still under Kyiv's ...

Catherine the Great poses with her husband Peter III, and son Paul I, who would later rule Russia from 1796 to 1801. Photograph by Fine Art Images, Heritage Images/Getty Compared to the rest of ...