The Decembrists were Russia’s first revolutionaries, challenging autocracy in the early 19th century. This series explores their origins, ideals, and the uprising that shook the Russian Empire.

Source: The State Russian museum, St. Petersburg. By the middle of the 19th century, balls were widely arranged not only in Petersburg and Moscow, where thousands were held every year, but in ...

The metaphor of “the Great Game” describes the power competition between Russia and Great Britain in the 19th century over the future of Central Asia. It describes a period of Russian expansion and ...

Alexei Ratmansky’s “Paquita” brings Marius Petipa’s 19th-century style to New York City Ballet through two lenses: his own ...

President-elect Donald Trump this week decided to revive 19th-century imperialism. In a single news conference, he pondered making Canada a state and acquiring Greenland and the Panama Canal by ...

A Russian missile attack struck the centre of the southern Ukrainian city of Odesa on Friday evening, wounding at least seven people and damaging historic buildings, officials said. "Currently, seven ...

The department has a longstanding expertise in Soviet cinema and writing, memory and trauma in 20th Russia, and 19th century literature and culture, with seminal studies on Dziga Vertov and films of ...