Catherine's major influences on her adopted country were in expanding Russia's borders and continuing the process of Westernisation begun by Peter the Great. During her reign she extended the ...

(AP) Oct. 18 at 6:17 a.m. American officers have parlayed their military experience ... fame as a war hero to command a Russian warship for Catherine the Great. Jones, a native of Scotland ...

For Catherine the Great, jewelry was about much more than adornment. The formidable Russian empress — who reigned from 1762 ...

Napoleon’s edict barring trade with Great Britain was ruining the Russian economy. Tensions quickly escalated; every attempt to negotiate failed. SOKHOLOV: The Russian army starts to concentrate ...

Gifted at political calculation and shrewd in military ... as the “Russian Hamlet”, Paul is a tortured figure who struggles to cope with his father’s death and his mother’s new lovers. Taken from ...