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

(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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Last week, after 50 years of tyranny and repression, the government of Bashar Assad fell in Syria. It fell thanks to a ...

His grandfather on his mother’s side, Prince Nikolai Volkonsky, was a member of the court of Catherine the Great and Russian Ambassador ... detailed descriptions of military combat in War ...