Memoirs of Catherine II - the greatest ruler of the world! These are notes and memories written by her hand about the era and contemporaries: her husband, Em...

The historical work “The Romance of the Empress” by the Polish-French historian Kazimir Waliszewski is by far one of the most fascinating descriptions of the...

The book by Kondraty Birkin (P.P. Karataev), an almost forgotten Russian writer, offers readers a rare opportunity to feel the atmosphere of palace secrets, ...

These biographical essays were published about a hundred years ago in the series “The Life of Remarkable People”, carried out by F.F. Pavlenkov (1839-1900). ...

“Historical Portraits” by the famous Russian historian V.O. Klyuchevsky paint a series of political figures of the Russian state of the 14th–18th centuries. ...

In the last book about the golden age of Empress Catherine the Second, Sofia Volgina showed the final stage of the glorious life path of the Russian Tsarina ...

TO THE PREMIERE OF THE SERIES OF THE HBO CHANNEL “CATHERINE THE GREAT” AND THE LONG-awaited CONTINUATION OF THE SERIES “CATERINA” ON THE “RUSSIA” CHANNEL! He...

“The word is given to teachers not to lull their own thoughts, but to awaken someone else’s” - this aphorism of the outstanding Russian historian Vasily Osip...

“The word is given to teachers not to lull their own thoughts, but to awaken someone else’s” - this aphorism of the outstanding Russian historian Vasily Osip...

Sofia Volgina's third book about Catherine the Great tells about the final years of her life, which were full of great deeds of the enlightened Russian Empre...

Probably, the twentieth century will not remember another woman like Ekaterina Alekseevna Furtseva. She was the only one who managed to be both the Secretary...

Catherine de Medici. One of the most brilliant women in world history. An unsurpassed master of political intrigue. A brilliant diplomat who masterfully mast...