In November 1854, the young Leo Tolstoy traveled to Sevastopol to join the beleaguered Russian defense against British and French forces. Dispirited by the decadence of his aristocratic lifestyle, ...

The decision marked the beginning of the Crimean War, after Russian troops refused to leave Moldavia and Wallachia.

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KYIV, Ukraine — Here's a widely held view of Russia's war: Russia had a more powerful army and expected a quick victory. It didn't think Western powers would intervene. Yet a poorly planned military ...

During the Crimean War of 1853-56, a London printing house compiled one artist's paintings of Crimean towns and landscapes to satisfy British curiosity about the peninsula. Nearly 200 years later, ...

Questions surrounding the film Russians at War linger following controversy surrounding it at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF). Trofimova told CBC her film was an attempt to humanize ...

Broadway + NYC Broadway Off-Broadway Off-Off Broadway Cabaret Dance Opera Classical Music West End / UK In 1854, a young war correspondent witnesses the catastrophic Charge of the Light Brigade at ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. "God loves the Trinity, and the SBU always brings what is conceived to the end and never repeats itself," SBU Chief Vasyl Malyuk ...

A Crimean Tatar couple in Ukraine, displaced by Russian troops, sees parallels to the Soviets' forced deportation of 200,000 Tatars from Crimea 80 years ago. Most Ukrainian Muslims are part of an ...

Eighty years ago, over three days from May 18 to May 20, 1944, Soviet security forces rounded up at least 200,000 Crimean Tatars on the Black Sea peninsula of Crimea and brutally sent them into exile ...