The Trump-Putin summit will take place in a former Russian colony that the United States bought for $7.2 million in 1867. Here’s how the deal came together and why its legacy matters. By Mike Ives In ...

For Catherine the Great, jewelry was about much more than adornment. The formidable Russian empress — who reigned from 1762 to 1796 after overthrowing her own husband, Peter III — understood that ...

Part One: Extreme makeover. This heavy thing ; The brightest star of the North ; The ambrosia of Asia ; Collecting debut ; Building frenzy ; My falcon, my golden pheasant -- Part Two: Russia is a ...

The memoirs of Catherine the Great, empress of Russia, were a state secret from soon after Catherine’s death in 1796 until the fall of the Romanov dynasty in 1917. Reading this surprisingly fast-paced ...

Katherine the Great Empress of the people was the Russian Empire's longest ruling female leader she was Mother to Russia's Golden Age butt she was also responsible for quite a lot of Bloodshed and she ...

Biographer Robert Massie explains how Catherine II read books to escape the misery of her unhappy marriage. When she became empress in 1762, she... Catherine The Great: First She Read, Then She Ruled ...