(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 to 1796 after overthrowing her own husband, Peter III — understood ...

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 ...

Catherine the Great dragged Russia into the modern world ... Grand Admiral and Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Army. He was made the absolute ruler of New Russia (the imperial province north of the ...

the Russian czar deposed by his better-known wife, Catherine the Great. Perhaps motivated by the prospect of this unflattering legacy, the Russian noblewoman—commonly called Princess Dashkova ...

Catherine the Great was the most powerful woman of her time ... It didn’t take long for Peter’s eccentricities to begin grating with the Russian nobility and military elite. His admiration of the ...

The upcoming release of Civilization VII has sparked controversy online, particularly regarding the inclusion of Russian ...

Firaxis Games revealed the Russian faction in Civilization 7 led by Empress Catherine the Great. The abilities presented are Prosveshchenie, Dusha, General Moroz, and Samoderzhaviye. Developers say ...

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 ...