Russia and Ukraine have battled over the atmospheric seascapes of the celebrated 19th-century painter Ivan Aivazovsky. Of Armenian descent, Aivazovsky (1817-1900) spent most of his life in ...

The Decembrists were Russia’s first revolutionaries, challenging autocracy in the early 19th century. This series explores ...

President-elect Donald Trump this week decided to revive 19th-century imperialism. In a single news conference, he pondered making Canada a state and acquiring Greenland and the Panama Canal by ...

Ukrainian troops were recently photographed by an artist to create a replica of a 19th-century painting. However, both Russia ...

An image depicting a famous 19th-century painting of Cossacks ... at the heart of the Ukrainian identity struggle caused by Russia’s full-scale invasion. The photograph — staged and taken ...

It may come as a surprise in the capitals of liberal democracies in the West — not to speak of blue urban America — that ...

Who were the colonists rushing north in 1867 after the United States purchased Russia’s interest in ... harshly the collision of cultures in 19th-century Sitka. The consequences of that time ...

President-elect Donald Trump this week decided to revive 19th-century imperialism. In a single news conference, he pondered making Canada a state and acquiring Greenland and the Panama Canal by ...

In the late 19th century, Georg Brandes made several trips to Poland ... a frontier station on the border between the Austro-Hungarian Empire and Russia. Here, during a passport check, Brandes was ...

Bulgaria, situated in the eastern Balkans, has been undergoing a slow and painful transition to a market economy since the ...

Newly sworn-in President Donald Trump vowed on Monday that the United States would take back the Panama Canal as he delivered ...