Though it's located about 20 miles outside St. Petersburg proper, the Catherine Palace and Park certainly merits a visit by anyone in the area, especially enthusiasts of elaborate and fanciful ...

Events, including street parties, are being hosted by communities across the country to mark 80 years since World War Two ...

Britain kicks off four days of events Monday marking 80 years since the end of World War II in Europe, lent extra poignancy ...

Located near the Catherine Palace and Park, the nearly 500-acre Alexander Park is less formal than its neighbor. The Alexander Palace, which was a frequent retreat for the last czar, Nicholas II ...

Except that Crimea WAS Russian territory from 1783, when Catherine the Great annexed it, until 1954, when Soviet leader Nikola Khrushchev transferred it back from Russia to Ukraine. Sure ...

Catherine O’Hara and Kaitlyn Dever join the ... been accused of kidnapping Ukrainian children and bringing them to Russia for forced adoption. Families in Ukraine have been desperately trying ...

One day recently, a camouflage-clad Prince William sat in a tank as he visited British troops in Estonia, not so very far from the border with Russia ... and his wife, Catherine, Princess of ...

One of the most opulent sites on Earth, the Hermitage includes the Winter Palace of the Romanov ... as "a window on Europe" for Mother Russia. By 1783, Catherine the Great had purchased artworks ...

Lenin's journey Frank Payne and Catherine ... that the Winter Palace had fallen, and that the government had been arrested.” Barely six months after his return to Russia, Lenin was the absolute ...

A push to rename streets and remove statues associated with imperial Russia is dividing Odesa, whose identity is tied up in ...