Michael romanov becomes tsar of all russia

On the feast day of St Mary Magdalene in 1342, the heavens opened over Würzburg with unrelenting fury. What had begun as a whisper in the summer air was thundering like a wild beast. The skies, heavy

“Spirit of Stalin, come and talk to me.” If you want to communicate through a medium with the Soviet Union’s feared dictator, Joseph Stalin, you can find a site on the internet via Russian Google. The

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How an upstart noble family emerged from the Wars of the Roses to rule England

Lana Estemirova has written a memoir about growing up during the Chechyan wars — and the murder of her mother

TWO figures stood on the western side of the Dnieper rapids: a tall youth and a little girl in a blue headscarf. Both were dressed in the distinctive clothes of the Cossack people. The little girl poi