Koshchei the Deathless. The main villain of Russian fairy tales
People have done all sorts of things with death in fairy tales: they've hidden from it, tricked it, begged for extensions. But one character went further...
June 12, 2026
Russian love poems. The best lines by Pushkin, Yesenin, Akhmatova, and Tsvetaeva
Eight lines, written almost two hundred years ago, still remain the formula for the most dignified parting of love. «I loved you:..."
June 12, 2026
Baba Yaga. Who is she and how has her image changed over the centuries
There is no other house like it in any fairy tale in the world. In the middle of a dense forest stands a hut, and it stands on chicken legs...
June 11, 2026
Sergei Yesenin. Biography, poems, and tragic fate
Here is a family gathering somewhere in Boston or Toronto. Someone starts talking about fallen maple leaves. Others join in. Then it goes to golden groves, and eventually...
June 11, 2026
The Cold War. Causes, events, and who won
There are wars that leave behind ruins and mass graves. And there once was a war in which the two main armies of the planet...
June 11, 2026
Orthodoxy and Catholicism. Main Differences
History's course can sometimes be decided by a single word. In an ancient Christian prayer, the Nicene Creed, it has always been said: The Holy Spirit proceeds...
June 11, 2026
Yuri Gagarin. The first man in space
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...
June 10, 2026
Moscow. What to see and how to spend 3 days
Moscow is a city that's impossible to see in one go; it's too vast, diverse, and fast-paced. But if you have...
June 10, 2026
Russians in the USA. History, emigration, and life today
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...
June 10, 2026
USSR. What it was, when it was created, and how it dissolved
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...
June 10, 2026
