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The Russian Empire and the Russian Tsardom. Grand Duke of Moscow Ivan III. ... it is universally accepted to trace back the emergence of the Russian statehood to 862, nonetheless.

The Russian empire, otherwise known as Imperial Russia, was the final period of the Russian monarchy lasting from 1721 until its dissolution in 1917.

Russia has taken full control of Ukraine's eastern Luhansk region, more than three years after President Vladimir Putin ...

Rurik obliged, travelling from Scandinavia to take control of the city in 862. Upon Rurik’s death in 879, his kinsman, Oleg, ... the Russian Empire would have never existed.

Russian President Vladimir Putin, like Adolf Hitler, won’t be content with just Ukraine — he wants to dominate Eurasia.

Putin sees Ukraine as part of his "destiny" to "recreate the Russian Empire," said ex-Defense Secretary Gates. "He is obsessed with retaking Ukraine. He will hang in there," Gates said on Sunday ...

Russian chemist and photographer Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii captured rare images of Russia in the early 1900s. Business Insider Subscribe Newsletters ...