For Catherine the Great, jewelry was about much more than adornment. The formidable Russian empress — who reigned from 1762 to 1796 after overthrowing her own husband, Peter III — understood that ...

Part One: Extreme makeover. This heavy thing ; The brightest star of the North ; The ambrosia of Asia ; Collecting debut ; Building frenzy ; My falcon, my golden pheasant -- Part Two: Russia is a ...

The Trump-Putin summit will take place in a former Russian colony that the United States bought for $7.2 million in 1867. Here’s how the deal came together and why its legacy matters. By Mike Ives In ...

ODESA, Ukraine—The missile razed an entire wing of Odesa’s soaring Transfiguration Cathedral to the ground. The columns holding up a vast cupola that once overlooked the altar now stand at a slant, ...

Olivia Durand receives research funding from Freie Universität Berlin, where she is a postdoctoral visting fellow alongside her position at the University of Oxford. Pope Francis’s video speech to the ...

When The Favorite earned ten Oscar nominations in 2018, it signaled the rise of a new genre-- history as comedy. "The Great" was created by one of the film's writers and it brings a comical ...