Ivan the Terrible has long become an iconic character in Russian history, and the oprichnina he established is one of its most mysterious pages. It is the su...

The Crusader army was defeated at Omovzha, and the Dorpat fortress was taken by storm. In the west of Rus', the Yuryev Principality again stood up as a stron...

Thirteen years of shaky peace between the Russian and Ottoman empires are ending. The contradictions between them are too great and cannot be resolved peacef...

It was the second year of the great famine and terrible pestilence caused by prolonged bad weather that covered all of Northern Rus'. The urban community of ...

In 1773, the First Russian Imperial Army defeated the main military forces of the Turks in Northern Rumelia, but was forced to retreat across the Danube. Ego...

The Oberezhnaya Hundred frees most of the lands of Veliky Novgorod from bands of robbers. Trade routes “from the Varangians to the Greeks” will soon be free....

Retired EMERCOM officer Andrey Sotnikov found the ancient Ignach Cross while fishing in the Novgorod region. It was from him that during the Mongol invasion ...

No matter how the allies of the Ottoman Empire tried to force it to continue to fight with Russia, the Sublime Porte, which had lost all the major battles on...

The year 1790 on the Danube passes to the roar of gunfire and the screech of grapeshot. Under the onslaught of Russian troops, Turkish Kilia, Tulcha, Isakcha...

The truce with Turkey dragged on for a whole year and yielded nothing. A peace treaty was not concluded between the warring parties. All contradictions betwe...

Summer 1803. More recently, the Russian Empire defeated the Ottoman Empire in the war, and Generalissimo Suvorov with his “Miracle Heroes” defeated the Poles...

1770 in Bessarabia and Wallachia resounds with fuze and cannon salvos. On the Danube lowland, the armies of the Ottoman and Russian empires came together in ...