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

Did you know that Russian museums employ not only people, but also four-legged specialists? Yes, no kidding: they have ...

During World War I, Maria Kexholmskaya served as a nurse and the soldiers dubbed her “the saint of the saints” for her ...

Yoshkar-Ola, the capital of the Mari El Republic, is known throughout the country as a city with replicas of world landmarks.

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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), ...

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

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 ...

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

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