Russia

Michael Lynch takes a fresh look at the key reform of 19th-century Russia – the end of Serfdom.

In the final article in our series on Britain and Russia, Stuart Thompstone visits the long-lasting community of Britons in the Russian capital.

Anthony Cross describes the introduction of British games to Russia.

John Slatter celebrates the far-ranging contributions of Russian political émigrés to British life in the half-century before 1917.

Antony Lockley examines the Allied intervention in the Russian Civil War and the propaganda battle between the Bolshevik and British forces on the Archangel front.

Paul Dukes looks at the ups and downs of the relationship between the land of the lions and that of the double-headed eagle.

The great Russian city was established on May 27th, 1703.

The Soviet leader died on March 5th, 1953.

John Claydon analyses the increasingly rich profusion of writings on the nature of the Bolshevik Revolution and of subsequent Soviet rule.

The walled and moated town of Kazan was stormed by Ivan the Terrible's army on October 2nd, 1552.