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The Blessings of Nicholas Mogilevsky
Passengers sharing Bishop Nicholas’s Moscow-bound flight found his blessings faintly silly — but that was when the engines were still running.
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Timur in Russia
Timur, Muslim lord of Samarkand, threw his weight behind the Golden Horde’s subjugation of Christian Russia, with unexpected results.
International Relations
A Passion for Meddling
Richard Cobden questioned both the wisdom and the motives of politicians who intervene on foreign soil.
by Richard Cobden 1804-1865
History
Dmitry the Pretender
Boris Godunov was crowned Tsar of All Russia in 1598 in the belief that Tsar Ivan’s son Dmitry was dead — but was he?
‘Nobody Wants to Invade You’
Richard Cobden told an Edinburgh peace conference that the biggest threat to the United Kingdom’s security was her own foreign policy.
Invitation to a Viking
The interminable squabbling among the Slavic peoples around the southeast Baltic prompted their leaders to drastic action.
from The Russian Primary Chronicle ?1113
The Great Northern War
Peter the Great wanted Russia to join the nations of Western Europe, but the nations of Western Europe refused to make room for him.
