The Battle of Stalingrad was the turning point in the conflict between the Soviet Union and the Third Reich, and WWII as a whole. Thereafter, it was clear that Nazi Germany was doomed.

Religion was a taboo back in the day, but it, nonetheless, proved hard to eradicate.

Imagine you’re alone in a small wooden hut, not a soul around, only your plot of land, abandoned barns and vast swathes of forest.

After Berlin was liberated and the Third Reich capitulated, the war didn’t finish for Prague, as some German troops remained there. Prague residents began an uprising, while Soviet troops later arrived to help. On May 9, the city’s garrison finally surrendered to the Red Army.

Historian and architecture expert William Brumfield discovers the soaring beauty of the Russian north’s remarkable churches.