In fact, researchers say his accomplishments in Ukraine were authentic, and popular claims to the contrary are fiction — a smear spewed by Russian rivals ... part of his empire today.

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the last city to be founded in the Russian Empire. Source: Library of Congress, The Moscow Times Located on Stolobnyi Island in Lake Seliger, Russia, the Monastery of St. Nil’ was first built ...