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7 caps of Russian tsardom that have survived to this day (PHOTOS)
What languages were spoken in pre-revolutionary Russia?
How Russia and the U.S. nearly started a nuclear war in 1995! (VIDEO)
Is it true that blocking detachments executed retreating Soviet soldiers right on the battlefield?
Why did the British intervene in the Russian Civil War? (VIDEO)
How did the romance between Leon Trotsky & Frida Kahlo end? (VIDEO)
Why were professional mourners valued in Old Russia?
What was folk medicine like in Old Russia?
How a Russian emperor became the Grand Master of the Order of Malta (VIDEO)
A VISUAL history of 20th-century Russia (PICS)
How a serf became Russia's ‘Vodka King’
Is it true that 'Doctor Zhivago' was published by the... CIA? (VIDEO)
What languages were spoken in the Russian Empire?
The LARGEST family in Russian Empire had 87 kids! How? (VIDEO)
Iconic WW2 Volgograd monument lights up the sky! (VIDEO)
Why didn't Stalin address the nation on the day of the Nazi invasion?
5 books that supported Russians during World War II
10 household items everyone in the USSR dreamed of
How a German SS brigade defected to Soviet partisans (VIDEO)
How the USSR tried to create its internet in the 1960s
How did the Soviets manage to down 100s of American spy balloons? (VIDEO)
An old Russian sport – ‘lapta’! (VIDEO)
What do the anthems of Russia & Great Britain have in common?
What did the ‘Chumaks’ (aka traders) do in Russia?
A VISUAL history of 19th-century Russia (PICS)
Why were Soviet snipers BETTER than German ones?
How American classic writer Mark Twain ended up in Russia & what surprised him
How the USSR helped rebuild life in Berlin after World War II
A VISUAL history of 18th-century Russia (PICS)
Is it true that Soviet soldiers fought with ONE rifle for every THREE men?
How Soviet teens defended a village from the Nazis (VIDEO)
How the Moscow Kremlin became… RED! (VIDEO)
Why was Alexander I's older sister taught… Russian?
Why Hungary fought AGAINST the USSR in World War II (VIDEO)
A VISUAL history of 17th-century Russia (PICS)
How England wanted to buy a Dynamo Moscow player
How Stalin fought before World War II
Why did Alexander's beloved regiment revolt?
What happened to the Romanovs after the 1917 Revolution?
Ethnic groups of Russia: Veps
5 famous people of the Russian Empire born out of wedlock (PICS)
What U.S. & British tanks did the Red Army ride into battle with in WWII? (VIDEO)
A VISUAL history of 16th-century Russia (PICS)
World War II PHOTOS by Soviet female photographer Olga Ignatovich
How FC Dynamo Moscow once beat BRITISH clubs in the birthplace of football
Why did Catherine the Great decide to… educate women?
5 LATEST Russian historical movies
5 facts about Alexander Nevsky (PICS)
How a descendant of Russian tsars became a sailor in the British navy
Why was Germany's 'Instrument of Surrender' signed twice? (VIDEO)
Grand tribute in motion (VIDEO)
The greatest parade ever marched (VIDEO)
10 ICONIC Soviet posters of World War II
How the Red Army stormed Berlin (VIDEO)
Soviet women during World War II (PHOTOS)
The St. George Ribbon: How one of Russia's symbols of military glory came to be
The 'Voice of Victory' known to all Russians (VIDEO)
This WWII pilot returned to the front after having both legs amputated
A VISUAL history of Medieval Russia (PICS)
How the Moscow Kremlin's Spasskaya tower got its name
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