Freemasonry came to Russia in 1731 when Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of England Lord Lowell appointed Captain John Phillips Grand Master of Russia, who subsequently preached among a small circle of ...

Sarah Welch/wikipedia.org Here’s a toast to the explorers and archaeologists who discovered the plant used to produce the drink of the ancient Indians. One of the most mysterious drinks in the history ...

Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson, Hamilton Luske/Walt Disney Productions, 1951; Efrem Pruzhanskiy/Kievnauchfilm,1981 Disney is famous worldwide for its cartoons based ...

Perestroika was initiated by Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, which was the beginning of the end of the Soviet Union. In 1988, the changes became irreversible after the cardinal reforms of the Soviet ...

The distinctive red stars that adorn the towers of the Kremlin are one of Moscow’s most iconic symbols, but few know the story of how they came to be there. As the Kremlin stars celebrate their 80th ...

According to the Bolsheviks, the red color of the Communist banner symbolized the blood of the people who fought for freedom. This explanation goes back to the revolutionary France of the late 18th ...

Siberia is a vast territory that has just about every kind of landscape: taiga, tundra, mountains and lakes. And very brief but eventful summers, when wild animals leave their natural habitat and come ...

During the 70 years of the existence of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the number of constituent parts changed, but most of the time there were 15 of them. Here is the list. In the beginning ...

The expression ‘Potemkin villages’ means anything made for the sole purpose of concealing the truth. The legend goes that during Catherine the Great’s journey to Crimea in 1787, Grigoriy Potemkin, the ...

http://slavsquat.com A criminal legacy of the 90s, today “gopniks” are representatives of the lower stratum of Russian society, tracksuit-clad hoodlums who take ...

Even Queen Elizabeth II has some old pieces of jewelry that once belonged to the Russian royal family. The diamond, emerald and sapphire tiaras of the Romanov dynasty were remarkable for their beauty ...

The Russian state received a huge territory stretching to the upper Oka and Dnepr rivers with 19 border towns, including Chernihiv, Gomel, Novgorod-Siversky, and Bryansk. The Grand Duchy of Lithuania ...