Defence ministries in both countries are decommissioning traditional foot bindings and canvas boots. For centuries they formed part of a soldier's standard uniform across the Russian empire. Then the ...

This is a bombshell, putting to the lie Russian propaganda’s longstanding claim that some spiritual entity called Russia has ...

"Zindan (prison), with inmates looking out through the bars and a guard with Russian rifle, uniform, and boots, Central Asia." Prokudin-Gorskiĭ/Library of Congress "General view of the Likanskii ...

The Russian empire, otherwise known as Imperial Russia, was the final period of the Russian monarchy lasting from 1721 until its dissolution in 1917.