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Hagia Sophia. By far the most significant building of the Byzantine Empire is the great church of Hagia Sophia . (Church of the Holy Wisdom) in Constantinople (532-37), which retained a longitudinal axis but was dominated by its enormous central dome.. Seventh-century Syriac texts suggest that this design was meant to show the church as an …

Part of a series on the: History of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (Soviet Union)

Peter I: Peter I, tsar of Russia from 1682 to 1725 who, as one of Russia’s greatest statesmen, organizers, and reformers, made his country a world power.

Writing for White Russian émigrés in the 1920s and 1930s, Ivan Ilyin provided a metaphysical and moral justification for political totalitarianism, which he expressed in practical outlines for a fascist state. But his ideas have now been revived and celebrated by Putin: because Ilyin found ways to present the failure of the rule of law as Russian virtue, Russian …

I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma; but perhaps there is a key. That key is Russian national interest.

GREAT BRITAIN. iv. BRITISH INFLUENCE IN PERSIA, 1900-21. In the late 1890s, the Foreign Office in London came to regard Germany as the main threat to the European balance of power and British imperial hegemony around the globe.

Catherine the Great: Catherine the Great, empress of Russia (1762–96) who led her country into full participation in the political and cultural life of Europe.

[This analysis was written for the Unz Review] For those interested in the military implications of the recent revelations by Vladimir Putin about new Russian weapon systems I would recommend the excellent article entitled “The Implications of Russia’s New Weapon Systems” by Andrei Martyanov who offers a superb analysis of what …

“The Great Game” was a political and diplomatic confrontation that existed for most of the nineteenth century between the British Empire and the Russian Empire over Afghanistan and neighbouring territories in Central and Southern Asia.