Anna Ivanovna (1693-1740) was empress of Russia from 1730 to 1740. She continued the policy of westernizing Russia initiated by Czar Peter I. Born in Moscow on Jan. 29, 1693, Anna was the daughter of Ivan V, co-czar of Russia with his half-brother...

Byline: The Monitor's View Of the thousand-plus Russians who waited in a steady Moscow drizzle to honor slain journalist Anna Politkovskaya this week, many did not personally know her. They came, as one said, because she was one of the "few people...

"I was famous, then I was infamous, and I am convinced that essentially it's the same thing." So wrote the late Anna Akhmatova, considered by some the greatest Russian poet of the 20th century. She will be honored Sunday by the Poets' Theater...