A young Peter the Great of Russia toured Europe seeking help for his diplomatic, military and architectural plans.

Two frantic parents implore St Nicholas’s help in rescuing their baby boy.

Scandinavian tradition says that the daughter of King Harold was consort to one the great rulers of Kievan Rus’.

Shortly after Askold and Dir founded Kiev in 862, they launched a brazen but ill-fated assault on the capital of the Roman Empire.

In 1553, Richard Chancellor set out on a perilous voyage to Russia in order to bypass the Hanseatic League’s customs union.

Hapless extremists try to wipe out a miraculous icon of the Virgin Mary.