On August 24, 1911, all French newspapers came out with sensational news: Leonardo da Vinci's painting "Mona Lisa" was stolen from the Louvre. Police Prefect...

In 1918, security officer Yegor Sidorchuk, on behalf of his superiors, handed over a box of diamonds for safekeeping to the Red commander Nikolai Postnov, hi...

A government house is like a home to him. And even in a foreign land, in an American prison, Varyag, who was watching Russia, proved his worth: the decoy kil...

Having infiltrated a leadership position in the Gossnabvooruzheniye concern, Varyag managed to direct colossal profits from the illegal arms trade to the nee...

The Grand Duke of All Rus' Vasily the Third, without waiting for an heir from his wife Solomonia, exiles his hateful wife to a monastery. The new empress, th...

The attempts of the boyars to woo the Polish princess to Tsar Ivan were unsuccessful. King Sigismund had heard a lot about the debauchery of the young Moscow...

It was not for nothing that Tsar John IV Vasilyevich received the nickname Terrible. The formidable sovereign shed a lot of blood, both of his enemies and of...

Moscow Rus' of the 16th century. Vast expanses, dense forests, wide rivers. To the south, beyond the Wild Steppe, are the possessions of the Crimean Khanate,...

Vasily Vasilyevich, grandson of the famous Dmitry Donskoy, became the Grand Duke of Moscow when he had just turned ten years old. And all his life he was for...

Here it is - the diamond crown of Catherine the Great. It had just been retrieved from a secret safe in one of the banks in the city of Kazan by the recogniz...

The events of 1917 ruined the fates of many officers of the tsarist army. Some died, some went abroad. Staff Captain Ivan Golenishchev-Kutuzov managed to set...

Andrey Kurganov, general director of the Russian Diamonds company, learns that the new government is going to remove him from his position and replace him wi...