Usually, icons depict saints or martyrs. But, one of them features an image of the great poet. How did that happen?

Red Army commanders highly valued the ‘Willys’ for its excellent driving characteristics. And, after the war, provincial ...

Fall is made for rustling leaves in the Tauride Garden and wandering along the Fontanka Embankment with a tea in hand. Don't ...

This romantic composition was allegedly Yury Gagarin’s favorite song!

In the pantheon of Russian literature, the writer who tragically died young is sure to stand somewhere next to Pushkin, whom ...

Like many foreigners, Randy King came without knowing the language. But, unlike others, this did not hinder him at all. After ...

What, is he ‘тише воды, ниже травы’ (‘tishe vody, nizhe travy’) or ‘the quieter than water, lower than grass?’” If you were ...

He dreamed of becoming an icon painter, but became famous for his vivid images of peasant women and portraits of Lenin and ...

In those times, prices for goods were set by the state and they did not change for years. But, this did not mean that the ...

In reality, this futuristic computer was the Soviet ‘Sphinx’ station, developed in 1986. Not just a computer, but a whole ...

Golden leaves in the parks, foggy morning embankments of the Moskva River and cozy evening streets – see how the fall season ...

Euphrosinia Kersnovskaya spent almost 20 years in Gulag camps and in exile. She not only left memoirs by regularly writing ...