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First World War (1914–18)

On 1 August 1914, Russia entered the First World War on the side of France and Great Britain against Germany and Austria-Hungary. The first action on the Eastern Front was the Russian attack on East ...

Ten Famous Artists

Leonardo da Vinci Leonardo was born in the Tuscan village of Vinci (1452). He worked in Florence (from 1471), before moving to Milan (1482), where he painted The Last Supper (1495). Leonardo returned...

Ten Famous Writers

Homer Homer is a legendary ancient Greek writer, who is believed to have lived around the 8th century BC. He allegedly wrote The Iliad and The Odyssey – the oldest works of Western literature. The Il...

History of Europe

Ancient Greece Ancient Greece was a collection of city-states. The most powerful was Athens, which was governed by an early form of direct democracy, involving public voting and debates. This contrib...

Queen Alexandra in Russia

Princess Alexandra of Denmark was born on 1 December 1844. Her younger sister, Dagmar, was born three years later, on 26 November 1847. Throughout their lives, much of what they did followed a patter...

Tsar Nicholas II in Scotland

On 20 March 1901, Tsar Nicholas II made the following entry in his diary: “At 12 we received the Duke of Abercorn with his Ambassador Extraordinary to announce Uncle Bertie’s coming to the throne. I ...

English Émigrés in Kievan Rus

Before the 1917 revolution, the members of the Russian imperial family were frequent visitors to England and Scotland. Many took refuge there after the revolution. The tsar ’s sister, Grand Duchess X...

Time of Troubles

The period between the death of the last tsar of the Rurikid dynasty in 1598 and the accession of the first tsar of the Romanov dynasty in 1613 were years of civil war in Russian history. This fiftee...

Golden Horde

The Golden Horde was the name of the state founded by Batu Khan following the Mongol invasion of Rus. The capital of the Golden Horde was the town of Sarai on the River Volga, not far from the modern...

Battle on the Ice

In 1240, German and Danish knights crossed the border and occupied a large portion of north-west Rus, including the town of Pskov. Led by Alexander Nevsky, the Russians recaptured several towns and m...

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