That’s when Imperial Japan went for the sucker punch it would soon be famous for. It launched a surprise attack on Port Arthur in February 1904 and then laid siege to the city.

IT is no easy matter to render an account of the proceedings and publications of the “Imperial Russian Geographical Society.” So numerous are its sections, and so prolific is each of them ...

Like every other stout style, Russian imperial stout began as porter. During the late 18th century, the heyday of porter brewing in London, porters were brewed to various strengths.

The only thing the Russian president has to offer his supporters now is the expansion and reconstruction of imperial territory. This corresponds to the very long-standing ideological line of Putin, ...

They inspired the Russian Imperial Family and James Bond's Octopussy alike. No wonder the world's gone mad for bejewelled Faberge Eggs - the ultimate royal Easter gift, writes JOSIE GOODBODY.

Russian president Vladimir Putin approved a new foreign policy doctrine based on the neo-imperial concept of the “Russian World,” the latest in Moscow’s mounting geopolitical standoff with ...

Fumaroli said bringing this Russian Imperial triptych to the Louvre is in line with the overall mission of the Friends of the Louvre. “The Fabergé Imperial Triptych is a jewel.

Ms. Pravilova, a professor of history at Princeton, shows that the ruble has been, above all, a symbol and an instrument of centralized, autocratic and imperial power.

Mikhail Zygar is a Russian journalist who publicly condemned Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 and fled into exile days later. Before that, he was the founding editor in chief of TV ...