Guercino’s King David has now joined its two companion works at the National Gallery, settling £5.6m in inheritance tax from ...

There is a deliberate policy by the Kremlin to exile, neutralise, and effectively erase alternative political life within the country, reports Denis Mikhailov ...

Inside the world of British jeweler, silversmith, and goldsmith Mappin & Webb as it celebrates its 250th anniversary.

HISTORYFor several centuries - especially from the 16th to the early 20th century - Europe’s royal families were deeply ...

Originally conceived in the mid-1800s to honor Tsarevich Nicholas Alexandrovich (who died in Nice), the St. Nicholas Russian Orthodox Cathedral wasn't completed until the early 20th century. Tsar ...

With each passing day, Armenia is sliding further into dictatorship. The vulgar, even pornographic, language Prime Minister ...

Tchaikovsky was neither American, nor a founding father, but his “1812 Overture” has become the soundtrack to our ...

The 50 salvaged cases of cognac brandy and 15 cases of herbal liqueur were originally intended for the aristocracy of Russia.

Salome Kobulashvili is a direct descendant of the last Georgian king, Erekle II. But I would have never known this ...

The common enemy of the first Franco-British rapprochement in the 1840s was the Metternich system, the reactionary absolutism ...

Since the late 1970s the Nationalist Party has sought as its main ideological beacon Christian Democracy and subsequently established strong links with Italy's Democrazia Cristiana. Over the span of ...

Today in History for July 17: In 1505, future church reformer, Martin Luther entered the Augustinian monastic order at Erfurt in present day eastern Germany. He was 21. In 1674, the second census of ...