Last year I wrote a blog on Catherine the Great and one of the themes I touched upon was the fact that she was not he first empresses of...

The year 1922, one century ago, occurred at what some would consider to be an interesting time in history as it was when the world tried...

It has been 45 days since I last wrote about the situation in Ukraine. While the world knows that the war is taking place it is no longer...

Part One featured her birth in 1729 to when she became Empress in 1762: To read it click here -Part Two: The Reign of Catherine II- Two...

On 27 July 1922 the Adyghe Autonomous Oblast was established under Russian rule (the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, USSR, would...

On 23 July 1992 Abkhazia declared independence from Georgia, which had only the year before declared independence from the Soviet Union....

-Part One features her birth in 1729 to when she became Empress in 1762- Two hundred and sixty years ago (1762), Catherine the Great...

Getting life back to normal and being so busy with work has meant that I have found myself run of my feet over the past month. I haven’t...