On September 10, 1721, the peace treaty that ended the Great Northern War was signed in the Finnish city of Nystad, which for two decades pitted the Russian Tsardom against the Swedish Empire.

Rich in songs is the history of slavery. Toiling on the Great Pyramids, Egyptian slaves intoned rhythmical chants (sample: "Hey, you, work! You, get up!"). Dixie's Negroes put body ...

The Russian Navy boasts one of the most formidable warships in the world: the nuclear-powered cruiser Pyotr Velikiy—known in English as Peter the Great.Officially classified as a “heavy ...

The Russian president proudly styles himself as a great conqueror in the mold of the tsars. His closest advisers, as one Russian official quipped , are “Ivan the Terrible, Peter the Great and ...

This Russian Noblewoman, Beloved by Catherine the Great and Benjamin Franklin, Embodied the Age of Enlightenment Princess Dashkova led research institutes, wrote plays and music, and embarked on a ...