It was an unlikely romance: he was a Venezuelan revolutionary and she was a shoemaker's daughter from rural East Yorkshire.

Vladimir Putin has repeatedly referred to Odesa as a "Russian city" and frequently invoked the notion of "liberating ...

Discover new adult, young adult and kids titles at Manistee County Library’s six branches — find thrillers, memoirs, picture ...

Byzantine Patriarch Anthony warned the Church cannot endure without an empire, emphasizing their inseparable unity during ...

Stepping into the Hermitage Museum feels like crossing a threshold between centuries. Light spills down the Jordan Staircase from crystal chandeliers, skating a ...

For several years now, in discussing plans for its human spaceflight program beyond the International Space Station, Russian officials would proudly bring up the Russian Orbital Station, or ROS. The ...

Of all the abductions, this one is different.

If you haven't heard the story about Catherine the Great, then clearly you never passed notes in history class. The rumor is that the lusty czarina was crushed to death while trying to make love to a ...

Free Expression: Russia and the U.S. talk of peace through commerce while Ukraine fights to survive. Photo: Kristina Kormilitsyna/Sputnik/Reuters/Gavriil Grigorov/AP ...

The Pennsylvania Theatre of Performing Arts will present “Anastasia: The Musical” at 7 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 6 and Friday, Nov. 7; and 2 p.m. (sensory-friendly ...

Welcome to the world of Catherine the Great, one of history’s most fascinating female rulers. Born as Princess Sophie of Anhalt-Zerbst, she later became the Empress of Russia, leading with a blend of ...

On the 27th of May, 1703, in the midst of the mist-shrouded marshes of the delta of the Neva River, Tsar Peter the Great made the first symbolic strike into the marshy soil of what would become one of ...