Doctor Zhivago is considered to be a classic 1965 film directed by David Lean. The film is loosely based on Boris Pasternak's Nobel Prize-winning novel of the same ...

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin was a leading figure in the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 and is known as the father of the Russian Revolution. His efforts landed him in a position ...

Czar Nicholas II and his family were executed by the Bolsheviks in 1918. Two of his children's bodies were missing, leading to speculation that Alexei and Anastasia had survived ...

Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia was the youngest daughter of Czar Nicholas II of Russia, the last sovereign of Imperial Russia. Recent evidence proves that she was executed along ...

The ethnic minority that resided in Abkhazia, declared their independence from Georgia in 1992. The breakaway republic has yet to be recognized by the world powers, except by Russia, which ...

Russian is the native language of more than 167 million people and is widely understood in countries across Eastern Europe.http://how-to-learn-any-language.com/e/languages/russian/index.html Considered a ...

Soviet Collectivization is a policy that was pursued by the Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin to centralize land ownership under collective farms.

The Russian Orthodox Church is a Christian religion that withstood 80 years of Communist repression to be reborn after the fall of Communism in 1990.