The Trump-Putin summit will take place in a former Russian colony that the United States bought for $7.2 million in 1867. Here’s how the deal came together and why its legacy matters. By Mike Ives In ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Minted in Russia in 1763, this denga ...

Olivia Durand receives research funding from Freie Universität Berlin, where she is a postdoctoral visting fellow alongside her position at the University of Oxford. Pope Francis’s video speech to the ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more.

The great collections of the Hermitage were founded by Empress Catherine II of Russia (1729-96), a monarch with an insatiable appetite for collecting. Catherine began life as a middling German ...