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Showing posts with label Russian history. Show all posts

Showing posts with label Russian history. Show all posts

Sunday, December 28, 2025

A Romanov closes Hillwood Jan. 4

At Hillwood Estate, Museum & Gardens/ By Patricia Leslie Especially for Russophiles , there's no time to waste to get to Hillwood ...

Sunday, November 30, 2025

FSB orchestrated Putin’s election

David Satter, Washington, D.C. Nov. 28, 2025/ By Patricia Leslie On a recent Friday night about 20 attended one of the many weekly public se...

Monday, August 11, 2025

Still another book on Tsar Nicholas II, but this one ...

Tsuyoshi Hasegawa professor emeritus in history at the University of California at Santa Barbara has written many books on Russian history,...

Monday, August 31, 2020

Nyet! Book review: Candace Fleming's 'Family Romanov'

On July 17, 1918 the Romanov family of seven and their servants were murdered at this site in Yekaterinburg , Russia which was then ...

Tuesday, July 21, 2020

At the think tanks: Czar for life?

Vladimir Putin, Feb. 20, 2020/ Wikimedia, Kremlin A tour guide in Moscow laughed when I bought a magnet at a gift shop with Vladimir P...

Saturday, June 13, 2020

Book review: 'Justice in Moscow' by George Feifer

If Russian scholar and cultural historian George Feifer (1934-2019) had not died, it's unlikely I would have ever known about his b...

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