In 1934 a fellow Communist assassinated in Leningrad that city’s Party boss, Dictator Stalin’s ”Dear Friend” Sergei Kirov. Stalin is supposed to have grilled the assassin personally.

The trigger for Stalin’s transformation of the Soviet Union into a murderous madhouse was the assassination of Leningrad party boss Sergei Kirov in 1934 by a disgruntled Marxist named Leonid ...

This year, Russia marks the 100th anniversary of the revolution that overthrew Romanovs and put an end monarchy. RBTH visited some key sites of the 1917 revolution in search of people who would ...

Afterwards Stalin minded his tongue with greater skill, not least because many leading Bolsheviks were Jews, and even those who were Gentiles (Sergei Kirov, V.M. Molotov, and Kliment Voroshilov ...

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Then we sort by price, meaning you can find the cheapest hotel in seconds. Organ and Chamber Music Concert Hall, Sergey Mironovich Kirov Monument and Tank T-34 Monument to the Heroic Work of Kirov ...

Russia's energy minister played down the impact of Ukraine's drone strike on a Russian oil facility, but the September 2 ...

The Kirov could not have picked a work more outside the mainstream of the contemporary Russian operatic tradition. The ice battle in Sergei Eisenstein's "Alexander Nevsky" is unforgettable for ...