Sir, Further to the letter from Sebastian Robinson (October 7): a serf was not free. A slave was tied to the owner and could be sold off separately. A serf was tied to the land and was bought or sold ...

In 1801 Count Nicholas Sheremetev, aged 50 and the richest man in Russia, secretly married 32-year-old Praskovia Kovalyova in a ceremony that shocked the Tsar and all of the nation's aristocrats.

March 28 marks the 64th anniversary of the democratic reform of the Xizang Autonomous Region in Southwest China. In March 1959, the central government led the people in Xizang to launch a democratic ...

This SovKino production was a major early experiment in Soviet historical film about the oprichnina period of Muscovite history, combining the costumed drama and Gothic thrills of the genre with ...