Peter the Great's 18-month tour of Europe is well known; and he moved Russia's capital from inland Moscow to the Baltic city Petrograd, today's St Petersburg, named after Saint Peter and himself - ...

World War I had a catastrophic impact on Russia, forcing its withdrawal before the conflict ended, resulting in significant ...

Special dispatches from Petrograd asserted today that the monk, who is supposed to wield such enormous influence over the czar, was found dead on the bank of the Neva river, some dispatches ...

Back in Saint Petersburg, now renamed Petrograd, Gumilyov got back to work, teaching creative writing. They came for him under the pretense of the Tagantsev Plot, a conspiracy largely invented by the ...

It’s hard, however, to begrudge him his choices; the essays cover the geography of Petrograd, the utility and type of wrapping paper used in shops, Soviet cookbooks, the blast furnaces of ...