mythology

State Russian Museum; The Hermitage

The Empress who locked her fool inside a palace made of ice

Russia Beyond (Photo: yulenochekk/Getty Images; Viktor Vasnetsov / Tretyakov Gallery)

ALL myths of Russian history DEBUNKED!

Russia Beyond (Photo: Public domain)

‘Keep Russians in a state of constant war’: The fake testament of Peter the Great

Kira Lisitskaya (Photo: Dmitry Chasovitin/Global Look Press; Unsplash)

The ‘Book of Veles’: How a false doctrine gained thousands of followers in the 1990s

Russia Beyond (yulenochekk/Getty Images; Viktor Vasnetsov / Tretyakov Gallery)

Did Ivan the Terrible really poke out the eyes of the architects of St. Basil’s?

Nikolai Dobrovolsky

St. Petersburg was NOT built on a swamp!

Viktor Vasnetsov/Georg Schlicht

The fantastic beasts of Slavic mythology (PICTURES)

Legion Media

Meet the fantastic mythical beasts that ‘live’ in St. Petersburg (PHOTOS)