The author uses new archival material to highlight Peter’s campaign of 1722-1723. to the Western Caspian and Caucasus (the territory of present-day Dagestan ...

The daughter of a German duke and a Moscow princess, Elizabeth Ekaterina Christina, left her native Mecklenburg forever at the age of three, at the will of h...

One of the “chicks of Petrov’s nest,” Artemy Volynsky, went from an ordinary soldier to the first minister of the empire. The descendant of the hero of the B...

In the 18th century, a specialized security service or political police first appeared in Russia: the Preobrazhensky Prikaz and the Secret Office of Peter I,...

Ernst Johann Biron is an iconic figure in Russian history of the 18th century. The name of the successful courtier is inextricably linked with the reign of E...

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...

There were many sharp turns in the fate of Anna Ioannovna: a natural Russian princess, the niece of Peter I, at his will, was married to a foreign prince, sh...

During the three centuries that the Romanovs were on the throne, much changed in the country—the autocratic power remained unchanged. Its bearers played diff...