Catherine the Great moved to a foreign land as a teenager and became one of the most important leaders in history. Known for ...

Move over Catherine the Great, Anna of Russia is in town. This hard-living, bitter-hearted Tsarina may not be as well known as the so-called Great, but she has more debauched antics and cruel tricks ...

Conservatives in Canada could be forgiven for celebrating earlier this year. Their nemesis Justin Trudeau announced that he ...

The U.S. may carry the biggest sticks on the seas, but does it have the most? Here's how the largest national navies in the ...

There’s a remote island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean that most people have never heard of. Once part of the Russian ...

Crimea, which juts out into the Black Sea off southern Ukraine, was absorbed into the Russian empire along with most ethnic Ukrainian territory by Catherine the Great in the 18th century.

Catherine Wolfram vividly illustrates the challenges — and satisfaction — of combining academia with policy. Describing her ...

Putin might even recall Catherine the Great’s comment on autocracy: “Any other form of government would be not merely harmful, but utterly ruinous for Russia.” But the 18th-century empress ...

The nation’s capital is a surprisingly treasure-filled jewelry town. If you know where to look. Several years ago, when ...

But no more: ‘True, Russia has ceased to be an empire ... he will have out-ruled the Empress Catherine the Great. He has no named successor: to appoint one would invite his allies and rivals to start ...

A pirate and a benefactor, Ioannis Varvakis had a bright life, supporting the Greek Revolution and becoming famous in both Greece and Russia.