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4 days ago

Fabergé egg Russia's last emperor gifted to his mother sells for record-breaking £23million

Tsar Nicholas II gifted the Winter Egg to Dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna  in 1913, five years before he was murdered along with his wife and children after the Russian Revolution.

63 days ago

Malcolm McDowell: ‘I would be a total disaster as a spy – I do love to gossip’

The actor on nailing Rupert Murdoch’s accent, working with Stanley Kubrick and missing old-fashioned dinner parties

Your new film The Partisan is about spies during the second world war. Would you mak…

3 months ago

Otter pelts, Orthodox priests and a $7.2m bargain: how Russia sold Alaska to the US

Tsar Alexander II sold oil-rich territory to the US in 1867. Will Friday’s high-stakes summit between Putin and Trump result in a warming of historic ties?

Donald Trump appeared to confuse geography a…

6 months ago

Kremlin cites past wars as it threatens long conflict in Ukraine

Russian peace negotiator invokes Peter the Great’s 21-year struggle to defeat Sweden, as Putin is fond of doing

Peter the Great’s long war against Sweden – a grinding conflict that claimed countless R…

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