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How a Soviet surgeon performed appendicitis surgery... on himself! (VIDEO)
How the Poles once staged a revolt… in Siberia!
How Joseph Stalin would spend his summer vacations (PHOTOS)
The Red Army's 3 most DEVASTATING defeats in World War II (PHOTOS)
Who was Lenin before he became the 'Father of the Revolution'? (VIDEO)
5 ways to ruin your career in the USSR (PHOTOS)
How a Soviet sailor once escaped... a SUBMARINE (VIDEO)
How Red Square once hosted a soccer match for Stalin
Martyrs of Alapayevsk: How Nicholas II's relatives were executed
How a Russian scientist fought racism
How Hungarians fought FOR the Bolsheviks during the Russian Civil War (VIDEO)
The Soviets changed a giant construction project because of THIS church
Why could only teenagers work as ‘foreytors’?
Whatever happened to the USSR's only nuclear-powered spy ship?
How the Red Army fought in U.S. 'Stuart' tanks (VIDEO)
How Peter the Great established a medal ‘FOR DRUNKENNESS’!
How the British tried to keep the Russians out of India (VIDEO)
What did the first Russian car look like?
How did the Russian Empire's MAIN crown survive to this day? (VIDEO)
This Soviet vehicle could DIG itself out of the ground!
Who was the most family-oriented of the Russian emperors?
5 facts about the ‘Battle of Poltava’
What was going on in Russia during the reign of Cardinal Richelieu?
Why is Russia so BIG? (VIDEO)
5 facts about Russian Emperor Nicholas I
Ethnic groups of Russia: Oroks
7 caps of Russian tsardom that have survived to this day (PHOTOS)
What languages were spoken in pre-revolutionary Russia?
How Russia and the U.S. nearly started a nuclear war in 1995! (VIDEO)
Is it true that blocking detachments executed retreating Soviet soldiers right on the battlefield?
Why did the British intervene in the Russian Civil War? (VIDEO)
How did the romance between Leon Trotsky & Frida Kahlo end? (VIDEO)
Why were professional mourners valued in Old Russia?
What was folk medicine like in Old Russia?
How a Russian emperor became the Grand Master of the Order of Malta (VIDEO)
A VISUAL history of 20th-century Russia (PICS)
How a serf became Russia's ‘Vodka King’
Is it true that 'Doctor Zhivago' was published by the... CIA? (VIDEO)
What languages were spoken in the Russian Empire?
The LARGEST family in Russian Empire had 87 kids! How? (VIDEO)
Iconic WW2 Volgograd monument lights up the sky! (VIDEO)
Why didn't Stalin address the nation on the day of the Nazi invasion?
5 books that supported Russians during World War II
10 household items everyone in the USSR dreamed of
How a German SS brigade defected to Soviet partisans (VIDEO)
How the USSR tried to create its internet in the 1960s
How did the Soviets manage to down 100s of American spy balloons? (VIDEO)
An old Russian sport – ‘lapta’! (VIDEO)
What do the anthems of Russia & Great Britain have in common?
What did the ‘Chumaks’ (aka traders) do in Russia?
A VISUAL history of 19th-century Russia (PICS)
Why were Soviet snipers BETTER than German ones?
How American classic writer Mark Twain ended up in Russia & what surprised him
How the USSR helped rebuild life in Berlin after World War II
A VISUAL history of 18th-century Russia (PICS)
Is it true that Soviet soldiers fought with ONE rifle for every THREE men?
How Soviet teens defended a village from the Nazis (VIDEO)
How the Moscow Kremlin became… RED! (VIDEO)
Why was Alexander I's older sister taught… Russian?
Why Hungary fought AGAINST the USSR in World War II (VIDEO)
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