Peter David passed away following struggles with a series of health care issues, leaving behind an incredible legacy of work.

Peter Kwong, known for playing Rain in Big Trouble in Little China, has died. He was 73.

Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost of Chicago has been elected pope, becoming the first American to lead the Roman Catholic Church.

Czar Peter the Great of Russia casts a long shadow over history. A giant of a man, with appetites for learning and adventure to match, he did more to modernize his country than pretty much any ...

But, as the offspring of Grand Duchess Anna Petrovna Romanova (the eldest daughter of Tsar Peter I the Great), who was orphaned when he was eleven years old, he ended up becoming the heir to the ...

If he wins again, and he serves his full six-year term, he will have been in power for 30 years, longer than any Russian or Soviet leader since Tsar Peter the Great (who died in 1721). Viable ...

Andrei Zorin is a cultural historian and chair of Russian at the University of Oxford. In a recent interview with Vazha Tavberidze of RFE/RL Georgian Service, Zorin discusses whether Russian ...

Karl Peter Ulrich—the only surviving grandson of Tsar Peter I, better known as Peter the Great. Attuned to the whisperings of court gossip, Sophie overheard that the child duke was hotheaded and ...

At the beginning of the eighteenth century, Tsar Peter the Great struggled to repel the formidable forces of Charles XII of Sweden, advancing on Moscow. Then came the Great Frost of 1708–9. Birds were ...

Olivia Durand receives funding from Freie Universität Berlin where she is a fellow. Vladimir Putin’s recent evocation of the military successes of 18th-century tsar Peter the Great against ...