I bet you that right now military historians all over the world are muttering under their breaths, “Stalingrad, Schmalingrad – Zuma could teach Generals Vasily Chuikov and Georgi Zhukov a thing or ...

In the 19th century Russia historical painting was freed from formality and canons. We find a good example of this in the work of Vasily Surikov (1848-1916) who created historical paintings of deep ...

Vasily Kuznetsov was the top European decathlete in the 1950s and was topped only by Americans Milt Campbell and Rafer Johnson and Chinese Taipei's C. K. Yang during his prime. Kuznetsov took up ...