A letter from Catherine the Great – dated April 20, 1787 – sold for $1.3 million dollars at a London auction on Wednesday. The Russian empress supported mass immunization against smallpox in ...

MacDougall’s, an auction house in London that specializes in Russian art, auctioned the letter along with a portrait of Catherine by Dmitry Levitsky. In the portrait, the empress wears a small ...

The letter, along with a portrait of Catherine by the Russian artist Dmitry Levitsky, will go up for sale on Wednesday. Together, the items are estimated to be worth between £800,000 to £ ...

The letter will be auctioned along with a portrait of Catherine the Great, which together are estimated to be worth up to $1.6 million, according to The Moscow Times. Originally published on Live ...

A rare letter written by Russian Empress Catherine the Great urging for her subjects to be vaccinated against smallpox has been unveiled in Moscow, as Russia's current leadership struggles with ...

A letter written by Empress Catherine the Great of Russia in 1787 advocating vaccination has been sold at auction for $1.26 million, along with a portrait of her.

The United States also returned two 18th-century decrees and a letter by Catherine the Great, as well as a 1905 decree by Emperor Nicholas II, the last czar of Russia, who was executed by the ...