Most Read This Week In Russian History

The history of Russia begins with that of the Eastern Slavs and the Finno-Ugric peoples.

Various states have existed in this region, including the Garðaríki ("the realm of towns"), Kievan Rus', Muscovy, Russia, the Russian Empire, the Soviet Union, and the Russian Federation.
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Most Read This Week Tagged "Russian History"

Patriot: A Memoir
Motherland: A Feminist History of Modern Russia, from Revolution to Autocracy
The Illegals: Russia's Most Audacious Spies and Their Century-Long Mission to Infiltrate the West
Collapse: The Fall of the Soviet Union
The Story of Russia
The Russo-Ukrainian War: The Return of History
The Rebel Romanov: Julie of Saxe-Coburg, the Empress Russia Never Had
The Shortest History of the Soviet Union
The Abyss: Nuclear Crisis Cuba 1962
Russia: Revolution and Civil War 1917-1921
Nuclear Folly: A History of the Cuban Missile Crisis
The Last Grand Duchess
Killer in the Kremlin: The Explosive Account of Putin's Reign of Terror
The Forbidden Garden: The Botanists of Besieged Leningrad and Their Impossible Choice
Goodbye to Russia: A Personal Reckoning from the Ruins of War
The Stalin Affair: The Impossible Alliance That Won the War
The Eastern Front: A History of the First World War
Spies: The Epic Intelligence War Between East and West
The Tsarina's Daughter
Barbarossa: How Hitler Lost the War
New Cold Wars: China's Rise, Russia's Invasion, and America's Struggle to Defend the West
Stalin's War: A New History of World War II
The Last Tsar: The Abdication of Nicholas II and the Fall of the Romanovs
The White Pill: A Tale of Good and Evil
Hitler and Stalin: The Tyrants and the Second World War
To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause: The Many Lives of the Soviet Dissident Movement
Beyond: The Astonishing Story of the First Human to Leave Our Planet and Journey into Space
War and Punishment: Putin, Zelensky, and the Path to Russia's Invasion of Ukraine
Overreach
Putin: His Life and Times
Spin Dictators: The Changing Face of Tyranny in the 21st Century
The Master Craftsman
Not One Inch: America, Russia, and the Making of Post-Cold War Stalemate
Our Enemies Will Vanish: The Russian Invasion and Ukraine's War of Independence
Putin's Wars: From Chechnya to Ukraine
To Run the World: The Kremlin's Cold War Bid for Global Power
The War of Nerves: Inside the Cold War Mind (Wellcome Collection)
The Empress and the English Doctor: How Catherine the Great Defied a Deadly Virus
In the Midst of Civilized Europe: The Pogroms of 1918–1921 and the Onset of the Holocaust
World Enemy No. 1: Nazi Germany, Soviet Russia, and the Fate of the Jews
Blood on the Snow: The Russian Revolution 1914-1924
Forty-Ninth
The Gambler Wife: A True Story of Love, Risk, and the Woman Who Saved Dostoyevsky
After the Romanovs: Russian Exiles in Paris from the Belle Époque Through Revolution and War

— Вы, должно быть, шутите, — воскликнул мой сосед справа, известный бруклинский раввин. — Не хотите же вы и впрямь сравнивать нескончаемые гонения на наш народ в царской России с полной свободой и равенством, которые мы имеем в Соединенных Штатах? — Свобода и равенство! — повторил я медленно и задумался, зачем столь образованному человеку умышленно не видеть правды. — А скажите мне честно, вы когда-нибудь слышали, чтобы хотя бы один домовладелец в той безжалостной царской России отказался пусти ...more
Александр Михайлович Романов

Henri Troyat
در اینجا، او کاترین را از اینکه غرق تجمل و خوشگذرانی شده سرزنش می کند و می گوید:(( شما دیگر جز به زر و زیور و آرایش نمی اندیشید. به طبیعت اصیل خود برگردید. نبوغ شما برای کارهای بزرگ زاده شده در حالی که شما آن را در این بچه بازی ها تلف می کنید. شرط می بندم که از وقتی که وارد روسیه شده اید کتابی به دست نگرفته اید!)) و از او قول می گیرد که هر چه زودتر کتاب های: زندگی سیسرون،پلوتارک و ملاحظاتی درباره ی علل عظمت و سقوط رومی ها اثر منتسکیو را مطالعه کند.
Henri Troyat, Catherine the Great

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