The Chinese Palace at Oranienbaum was designed by Italian architect Antonio Rinaldi in the Rococo style and built between 1762 and 1768 as a summer residence of Catherine the Great. The empress did n...

The Soviet Union has produced some world-class footballers over the years. However, none rival the legendary Lev Yashin in stature. The goalkeeper was the bedrock of the Soviet national team for sixt...

Following the murder of Tsar Nicholas II and his family in Ekaterinburg on the night of 16/17 July 1918, a woman in Berlin claimed to be the tsar’s youngest daughter, Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaev...

Just like Peter the Great founded St Petersburg and created a new secular Russia in the early eighteenth century, the Bolshevik government after the 1917 revolution wanted to build a new capital refl...

The Church of San Procolo stands on the corner of Via de’ Giraldi and Via de’ Pandolfini in the very centre of Florence. The history of the church dates back over one thousand years, while the surrou...