Copywriter for Palme school. I write about child-rearing and education.
On April 12, 1961, at a cosmodrome in the middle of the Kazakh steppe, a man in a spacesuit said one short word. "Let's go." And the rocket took off...
Moscow is a city that's impossible to see in one go; it's too vast, diverse, and fast-paced. But if you have...
There is a street in New York where the signs are ablaze with Russian letters, where the shops sell black bread, herring under a fur coat, and candies...
Grandma drops «we didn't have that in the Soviet Union» into conversation, Grandpa recalls a Pioneer camp and the first satellite, in the old...
There's a scene in the history of science that one wants to retell endlessly. A Petersburg professor compiled a table of all known elements and left in it...
On the face of it, the question is simple: how many people in the world speak Russian. But there is no exact answer. The numbers in different…
If you say the word "babushka" to an Englishman or an American, they'll most likely think not of a kind old woman, but of a headscarf,...
Petersburg stands on water, and water is the main architect here. The city is cut through by rivers and canals, its palaces are reflected in the Neva, bridges...
The main difficulty with traveling in Russia is that the country is immensely vast, and there simply isn't a single "Russia" for a traveler...
Several years ago, a story happened that shocked the whole world. A mathematician from St. Petersburg was awarded a million-dollar prize for solving a problem that had been...