It is well overdue that this particular rumour about Russian empress Catherine the Great is sent to the glue factory ...

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 ...

In 1762 Catherine's husband became Tsar Peter III but he was soon overthrown with Catherine being declared empress ... Westernisation begun by Peter the Great. During her reign she extended ...

A Russian court has ordered an American man to be held in custody for 30 days after he was arrested at a Moscow airport on drug-smuggling charges when customs officials said they found cannabis ...

Taken from Catherine at birth and raised by his great aunt, Empress Elizabeth, and tutor, Minister Panin, Paul never formed a loving relationship with Catherine. The brutal, conniving and ambitious ...

Only Dame Helen Mirren could get away with arriving at the Catherine the Great premiere in this much style, right? It doesn’t take much for Helen Mirren to cause a stir with her presence.