On the Russian right, 8,000 Cossacks, under the command of generals ... The French still had 20,000 troops of the Imperial Guard and another 10,000 fresh soldiers waiting for an order to advance ...

When Cossacks claimed Djibouti for Russia and the anthropologist Nicholas Miklouho-Maclay offered New Guinea to the tsar, the Russian government spurned possession of these regions. Reluctance to go ...

During a 2012 BAFTA tribute to her, it was humorously noted that she had clothed literal armies of stars onscreen — “the Red Army, the British Army, the U.S. Army, the Cossacks ... s photographs ...

Painted between 1880-91, Ilya Repin’s Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks depicts Cossack ... where he studied at the Imperial Academy of Arts. He became widely celebrated as a leading figure of the ...

The Anastasia musical will transport its audience to Imperial Russia and Paris of the 1920s.(Grown Media + Paris Marie Productions) The Family Music Theatre is bringing the musical Anastasia to ...

Here’s What You Need to Know: The concept of a circular battleship actually wasn’t entirely Russian. While Czar Peter the Great of Russia sought to “westernize” his nation, and this ...

The Russians are making a heroic effort—and making progress. They crossed the river and seized the village of Novomlynsk, ...

By invoking these imperial ambitions, Trump is tapping into a dangerous ... would not only alienate key allies but also embolden rival powers like China and Russia, who are eager to portray the United ...

The painting has been claimed by both Ukraine and Russia as part of their heritages. It not only depicts Cossacks, a people that both countries view as their own, but it was also made by Illia ...

But then again, these are unprecedented times. Is the idea of a freshly emboldened demagogue with imperial designs really that outside the bounds of possibility? Trump is an inveterate shit-talker.

Trump has expressed admiration for the dictatorial power wielded by authoritarian leaders such as China’s Xi Jinping and Russia’s Vladimir ... as boundaries on an imperial presidency.