Goebbels, The Master of Lies

Solovetsky Island in Russia's White Sea is home to one of Russia's most fabled monasteries. A barge carrying its bells which left for the mainland vanished in the 1920's, leaving it up to modern-day divers to retrieve them.

James Brown “travels back in time” to take part in what would be remembered as the “attack of the dead men”, the bloody conclusion of the battle of Osowiec in WWI.

They say there was a magic pill that could cure any illness and prolong life, but only the Soviet leaders had access to it. Was it a panacea or a placebo?

On October 4th, 1993, what had started as a row between then-President Boris Yeltsin and Russia's Parliament culminated in an all-out battle for Russia's destiny between legislators who had barricaded themselves inside Russia's 'White House' and the president's tanks and supporters.

On 27 July 1714, the Russian fleet overpowered the Swedes at the Battle of Gangut, resulting in Russia’s first naval victory. 300 years later, history comes alive in the largest-scale re-enactment of those events. RT Doc joins the eye-catching spectacle

The National Agricultural Exhibition Centre in Moscow, known as VDNKh, is a unique heritage of the Soviet era and a magnificent architectural and park complex unparalleled in the world. Built in the late 1930s to showcase the victories of collective farming, it boasts the works of the best artists and sculptors of the time.

Twenty-year old soldiers who fought in the World War II are now past eighty. Few are still alive. But they still remember how after many devastating years, the spring came, and the war was over.

2014 was a very special year for Sevastopol and its citizens. The 70th anniversary of the city's liberation from Nazi occupation coincided with the reunification of Crimea and Sevastopol with the Russian Federation. 

Those born with artistic taste and a love of all beauty were doomed if they were born in the Soviet Union. Practicality and uniformity dictated all spheres of life, including fashion. Our heroes begged to differ, becoming the vivid flecks on the Iron Curtain’s drab surface.

Although the Battle of Borodino may have been a victory for Napoleon, it helped the Russian army to unite and ultimately free the country from the French invasion. Find out what life was like for the soldiers at Borodino 200 years ago.