The Russian people must transcend centuries of indoctrination and figure out what it means to be no longer an empire.

The National Army Museum in London has recently identified the likely subject of a portrait of a black soldier in its ...

The Napoleonic wars were fought on a bigger scale than any conflict that had gone before. Though concentrated in Europe, their impact was global. They ...

When Napoleon Bonaparte led his Grand Army into Russia in 1812, he commanded the largest military force Europe had ever seen ...

On the foggy night of August 6, 1915, near the Osowiec Fortress in what is now Poland, Imperial Russian troops faced a devastating German gas attack. The chlorine gas left the surviving soldiers with ...

In the winter of 1812, Napoleon’s Grande Armée met its most devastating enemy—not the Russian army, but biology itself. As ...

The Britain-Russia rivalry is one of the most enduring contests in modern history, yet it is rarely recognized as such. From imperial skirmishes in Central Asia to Cold War standoffs in Europe, the ...

It is unclear how long the deployment will last, but the Russian warships are expected to visit “several foreign ports” and carry out drills and exercises. Russian state media outlet Tass reported ...

Moscow is pursuing a policy of forced Russification and militarization in occupied territories, aiming to turn the local ...

English National Ballet’s artistic director, Aaron Watkin, is very keen on mixed bills showing the company’s range. This is certainly a diverse collection of pieces – George Balanchine and Martha ...

After a year-long siege by the French and British armies, the Russians abandoned the naval port of Sebastopol on September 11, 1855. Here, two allied soldiers have the Russian split crow wounded and ...