A Russian missile attack struck the centre of the southern Ukrainian city of Odesa on Friday evening, wounding two women and a teenage boy and damaging historic buildings, officials said. The governor ...

Source: The State Russian museum, St. Petersburg. By the middle of the 19th century, balls were widely arranged not only in Petersburg and Moscow, where thousands were held every year, but in ...

The metaphor of “the Great Game” describes the power competition between Russia and Great Britain in the 19th century over the future of Central Asia. It describes a period of Russian expansion and ...

By analyzing sulfur and volcanic ash entrained in ice cores, researchers pinpointed a caldera in the remote Kuril Islands as ...

President-elect Donald Trump this week decided to revive 19th-century imperialism. In a single news conference, he pondered making Canada a state and acquiring Greenland and the Panama Canal by ...

Russia and Ukraine have battled over the atmospheric seascapes of the celebrated 19th-century painter Ivan Aivazovsky. Of Armenian descent, Aivazovsky (1817-1900) spent most of his life in ...

An image depicting a famous 19th-century painting of Cossacks ... at the heart of the Ukrainian identity struggle caused by Russia’s full-scale invasion. The photograph — staged and taken ...

President-elect Donald Trump this week decided to revive 19th-century imperialism. In a single news conference, he pondered making Canada a state and acquiring Greenland and the Panama Canal by ...