Although Peter the Great could only wear the imperial crown for just three years, his military, political, and social conquests were so significant that his death, which marks three centuries this ...

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 ...

The warship, dubbed Peter the Great after Russia’s first emperor, was launched in 1998 and served as the flagship of the Russian Navy until its decommissioning this year.

Construction of the ship Peter the Great started in 2016 and was meant to take two years, but its launch has been postponed repeatedly.

The ghosts of empire are haunting Eurasia. President Xi Jinping’s China is seeking to reclaim the power and privileges of the great dynasties that once bestrode Asia. President Vladimir Putin is ...

Today’s great powers—China, Europe, Russia, and the United States—will undoubtedly have a role to play in the conflict between Israel and Hamas. Whether any of these powers will be able to resolve or ...

The flagship of the Russian Navy, Pyotr Veliky or 'Peter the Great', is the largest operational warship in the world that isn’t an aircraft carrier.

The government swung the same cudgel this week at Meduza, a Latvian-based news outlet that publishes in Russian and English and focuses on Russia and other former Soviet republics.

Russian aggression in Ukraine and competition between China and the United States have made the world more uncertain and dangerous. The Ukraine war is likely to be prolonged, and the U.S.-Chinese ...