Das Reich surged toward Moscow in the darkest months of 1941, only to be shattered by winter, Soviet resistance, and relentless counterattacks that nearly destroyed the division. This video follows ...

As Guderian’s panzers and Army Group Center pushed toward Moscow, Berlin still believed one final effort could end the war in 1941. But behind the maps and confident orders, the reality was ...

Kathleen Harriman, a young American accompanying her diplomat father to the UK, met everyone who was anyone. But she kept one ...

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Ukrainian photographer Arthur Bondar has amassed a huge collection of pictures from often unknown photographers ...

With all the controversy over the fast-moving war in Iran, it is easy to lose sight of the fact that the world balance of ...

In autumn 1941 volunteers from the Airdrie branch of the Russia Today Society decided to send messages of support to women in Leningrad.

Vladimir Borisovich BorschevAmherst, MA - Vladimir Borisovich Borschev (Volodja), 90, of Amherst, Massachusetts, died peacefully on February 14, in home hospice care, with loving family nearby and his ...

During the war, the city of Leningrad endured one of the longest and most devastating sieges in modern history.

The surrealist aspiration to evoke a sense of the marvellous and mysterious in the everyday permeates the exhibition.

The cause of death of the Honored Artist of the RSFSR Lyudmila Arinina, who died at the age of 99, was a weak heart caused by age-related changes. This was reported on March 14 by RIA Novosti, ...

Women’s History Month gets off to great start this year with a wide variety of plays, concerts and musicals starring women.