Many junior officers, returning from the fronts of World War II, decided to become writers and share what they had ...

The summer adventures of cats in the countryside: walking along fences, encountering rural animals, eating delicious food and ...

In 1744, under the reign of Empress Elizabeth Petrovna, porcelain production was launched in Russia, according to the ...

"I walk the shore, I watch the weather," - the narrator in Pushkin's ‘Eugene Onegin’ is not checking the forecast for ...

There are many legends about ghosts living in Moscow. In the 1920s, another one was added to them - about the ‘luminous monk’ ...

Sporty clothes in the USSR stopped being only apparel for athletes. Regular people began to wear sneakers and tracksuits to ...

The navy of the Russian Empire often chose religious names for its ships and one of them somehow ended up in the Soviet navy.

The author of ‘War and Peace’ died seven years before the turning point in Russian history. But, at heart, he was an ...

Soviet Moscow became the host of the XXII Olympic Games. The opening ceremony took place on July 19 in the Luzhniki Stadium.

We’ve put together a list of educational, strange and funny facts about Russia for you! A dozen of them communicate with ...

Some time ago we talked about the verbs ‘едем’ and ‘едим’. Why not continue comparing verbs that look and sound alike? Today’s guests are ‘ходим’ (we walk/we go) and ‘хотим’ (we want).

It was on Russian “literary soil” that this genre essentially originated from, anticipating George Orwell's iconic ‘1984’ and ...