The Forbidden Garden: The Botanists of Besieged Leningrad and Their Impossible Choice Simon Parkin Scribner (2024) After Simon Parkin’s account of the siege of Leningrad and the fate of the ...

During the ‘Battle of the Dnieper’ in the Fall of 1943, Junior Lieutenant Bakhtin and a group of soldiers captured a bridgehead on the right bank of the river and held it for two days until ...

Russian President Vladimir Putinsaid Wednesday that he signed a decree awarding 80,000 rubles ($780) to the country’s World ...

For more than two years during the Nazi siege of Leningrad, botanists in the Russian city guarded a treasury of seeds, grains and tubers with their lives. In 1921, when Nikolai I. Vavilov arrived ...

“Exceptionally Well-Preserved Anglo-Saxon Sword Found in UK ” George Nelson, ARTnews ...

Then we had the Russian Revolution, which also happened in these buildings. Later came the German siege of Leningrad in WWII. This museum is full of history, and at the same time, it presents a ...

From 1975: U.S. Rep. Thomas Foley, the district’s Democratic congressman, was expected to be appointed to a key position in ...

The spontaneous outpouring after Dr Manmohan Singh’s death reflects on the widespread yearning for the decency we have lost ...

The irrational hatred towards Russia within Western elites and their subsequent actions put the people of the EU in mortal danger, writes RAINER RUPP ...

Today in History for Jan. 18: ...

Born in post-war Leningrad amid the grim legacy of the Nazi siege, the young Vladimir Putin learnt survival arts more appropriate to the chaotic post-Soviet dog-eat-dog society of the 1990s than ...