It seems that there was nothing foreign made behind the Iron Curtain – only domestic. And yet, you could find almost ...

The formal version of the name is Мария (Mariya), while the informal one is Маша (Masha). However, family members and friends can use diminutive forms of the name - for example, Машенька (Mashen’ka), ...

Education for Soviet high school students was fee-based for some time and a unified uniform appeared only after the Great ...

Commander of the Russian army Pyotr Wrangel was the only leader of the White movement who was still feared by the Bolsheviks ...

In 2006, actor Vasily Livanov received the Order of the British Empire, Fifth Class, at the British Embassy in Moscow. On ...

Russia's capital attracts travelers from all over the world. We calculated the average cost of a week’s leisure vacation with ...

Almost on the very border with Estonia in the town of Pechory, you will find one of the largest Orthodox monasteries in ...

The Soviet state treated the Russian Orthodox Church extremely cruelly. Nevertheless, many clergymen still stood up to defend ...

Architectural historian and photographer William Brumfield unravels the 500-year history of the Novodevichy Convent and its ...

On the territory of the Moscow Kremlin, there is a palace that was built for the first of the Romanovs, Tsar Mikhail ...

Throughout the history of cinema, the Russian writer's novels and short stories have been adapted hundreds of times for the ...

One of our followers asked via our Telegram channel whether there are any “ugly” Russian women – because, allegedly, no one ...