In one of the most intense combat sequences Carl ever describes, his tank unit is thrown into the bloody chaos of the Vyazma encirclement. With Russian tanks emerging from fog and shells flying, Carl ...

Vyazma today is a placid regional center of some 56,000 just off the Minsk Highway, the main road from Moscow west. It is situated almost midway between two ancient centers of Russia’s destiny ...

Vyazma pryaniki were decorated with stamps and coated with sticky sweet icing. In the olden days, legend had it that Vyazma pryaniki were even served at the table of England’s Queen Elizabeth I.

The treason charge would remain, but she would be free to await trial at home in Vyazma. “They sat there with stone faces,” Badamshin told me. “No thuggishness, very professional.

The remains are planned to be reburied on February 13 MOSCOW, January 12. /TASS/. Remains of about 60 soldiers who died during Napoleon’s retreat in November 1812 near Smolensk discovered during ...

The remains of French and Russian soldiers who died more than 200 years ago during Napoleon's retreat from Moscow were laid to rest on February 13 in a cemetery in a town in the Smolensk region.