He contrasted this with the Russian civilization's roots over a millennium ago. Accompanying Elbegdorj's post were maps of the Mongol Empire of the 13th and 14th centuries. One shows the breadth ...

The Mongols besieged the city of Vladimir during their invasion of Kyivan Rus in 1238. Russian artist Vassily Maximov created this somber depiction of the event in 1910. History remembers Genghis ...

When the Mongols attacked the Russian town of Yaroslavl in 1238, almost nobody was spared. Hundreds were slaughtered brutally and dumped into mass graves as the town was completely sacked.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has claimed that the Golden Horde (part of the Mongol Empire) was better for Moscow than "Western conquerors" and praised Prince Alexander Nevsky, a key figure in ...

Crimea had been contested for centuries by the Greeks, Mongols and Ottomans before Russia illegally annexed it from Ukraine in 2014. Sitting at a geographic crossroads between Europe, Asia and the ...