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 ...

The two-time Oscar winner also worked on 'Oliver!,' 'The Princess Bride' and three Kenneth Branagh films and knew the ...

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, the Nazis ...

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 ...

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 ...

Moscow’s troops used the same pincer tactic on Velyka Novosilka that has enabled their recent capture of town after town in ...

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 ...

Since the Cold War ended in 1990, four legacy empires—those of China, France, Russia, and the United States ... When it comes to that other great imperial force on Planet Earth, let’s ...

An Australian schoolteacher who fought for Ukraine before being captured by Russia was likely executed after being robbed by ...