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Vikings in Russia | HISTORY OF TRADE

Vikings in Russia

Unusually for the Vikings, trade rather than plunder is the main reason for their penetration deep into Russia during the 9th century AD. The rivers of eastern Europe, flowing north and south, make it surprisingly easy f...

Vikings in Russia | HISTORY OF THE VIKINGS

Vikings in Russia

Unusually for the Vikings, trade rather than plunder is the main reason for their penetration deep into Russia during the 9th century AD. The rivers of eastern Europe, flowing north and south, make it surprisingly easy f...

Russia persuades France and Germany to | HISTORY OF JAPAN

New rivalries in Asia

Russia persuades France and Germany to join diplomatic forces in the so-called Triple Intervention, which insists upon Japan returning the Liaotung peninsula to China. China, in recompense, is to pay an even larger indem...

Russia persuades France and Germany to | HISTORY OF RUSSIA

New rivalries in Asia

Russia persuades France and Germany to join diplomatic forces in the so-called Triple Intervention, which insists upon Japan returning the Liaotung peninsula to China. China, in recompense, is to pay an even larger indem...

Russia is closely involved in the | HISTORY OF THE CRIMEAN WAR

The Eastern Question

Russia is closely involved in the two Balkan liberation movements of the early 19th century, in Serbia and Greece. Russian imperial ambitions in this area benefit from a cloak of idealism. The majority of Christians livi...

Russia is closely involved in the | HISTORY OF THE BALKANS

The Eastern Question

Russia is closely involved in the two Balkan liberation movements of the early 19th century, in Serbia and Greece. Russian imperial ambitions in this area benefit from a cloak of idealism. The majority of Christians livi...

Russia is closely involved in the | HISTORY OF TURKEY

The Eastern Question

Russia is closely involved in the two Balkan liberation movements of the early 19th century, in Serbia and Greece. Russian imperial ambitions in this area benefit from a cloak of idealism. The majority of Christians livi...

Russia's interest in reaching the Black | HISTORY OF TURKEY

Russo-Turkish wars

Russia's interest in reaching the Black Sea, attempted but not lastingly achieved by Peter the Great, is furthered in two wars at the end of the 18th century. A conflict of 1768-74 brings Russian successes in several bat...

Russia's interest in reaching the Black | HISTORY OF RUSSIA

Russo-Turkish wars

Russia's interest in reaching the Black Sea, attempted but not lastingly achieved by Peter the Great, is furthered in two wars at the end of the 18th century. A conflict of 1768-74 brings Russian successes in several bat...

A Russian army officer, Nikolai Mikhailovich | DISCOVERIES - ARCHAEOLOGY

Przewalski's horse

A Russian army officer, Nikolai Mikhailovich Przewalski, specializes during the 1870s in journeys of exploration through the bleak regions of northeast Asia. Wherever he goes, he collects specimens of the plants and wil...

The Russian steppes have long been | HISTORY OF EUROPE

Intruders from the east

The Russian steppes have long been vulnerable to invading groups of nomads, such as the Kipchak Turks. But from the 13th century Europe suffers much more violent incursions from the east.

In the long run the mos...

When the Russians pull out of | OSAMA BIN LADEN

Osama bin Laden

When the Russians pull out of Afghanistan, in 1989, bin Laden returns to Saudi Arabia. But he soon finds a new affront on his home territory. In 1990, after the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait, the government allows US troops t...

When the Russian imperial regime is | HISTORY OF COMMUNISM

The Bolsheviks

When the Russian imperial regime is suddenly toppled, in March 1917, none of Russia's leading Marxists are in the country - and all are taken completely by surprise by this turn of events. Lenin and his entourage are in...

When the Russian imperial regime is | HISTORY OF RUSSIA

The Bolsheviks

When the Russian imperial regime is suddenly toppled, in March 1917, none of Russia's leading Marxists are in the country - and all are taken completely by surprise by this turn of events. Lenin and his entourage are in...