Both countries lay claim to Ivan Aivazovsky and his works, many of which were in Crimea when it was illegally annexed by ...

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 ...

not only because of the fact that Polish literature was for him a terra incognita (he does not cover it in his monumental six-volume book Main Currents in Nineteenth Century Literature) and that he ...

An image depicting a famous 19th ... Russia’s full-scale invasion. The photograph — staged and taken in late 2023 by Émeric Lhuisset, a French photographer — reimagines a famous 19th ...

Ahead of his second term, an emboldened Trump has articulated a vision of hemispheric expansionism. What’s he playing at?

The 19th century was a tumultuous period in the relationship between Britain and Russia. There were passing moments of goodwill and cordiality to be sure – as when Nicholas II visited India.

In this way the Romanov emperors built up Russia’s civil bureaucracy and the armed services as bodies of public servants who had a vested interest in maintaining the tsarist state. In a number of ...

Ukraine's so-called "fortress belt" is reportedly under threat as Russia seeks to advance. Vladimir Putin's forces are ...

Professor J. Thomas Shaw, whose 880-page edition of the letters has been reissued by Alma Classics after decades out of print, points out that although Pushkin gives us an encyclopaedic view of ...

The new Syrian authorities have banned the import of goods from Russia, Israel and Iran. This was announced on January 18 by the Turkish portal Turkiye Today. On January 17, the Syrian Ministry of ...

A bitter and bloody war in Ukraine has devastated the country, further isolated Russia from the West and ... An image depicting a famous 19th-century painting of Cossacks, with current Ukrainian ...