Free online Russian language, the best 2026 resources besides apps
A familiar sight. A parent installs the app with the green owl, subscribes to a podcast, bookmarks a couple of channels. The first week is energetic. After a…
August 22, 2026
Particles in the Russian language from «zhe» and «li» to «by» and «nu»
In the play, next to the line, there are parentheses. «I won't go» (defiantly). And right after: «I won't go» (confused). The words…
August 21, 2026
How Russian surnames are structured and where they came from
At an American school roll call, the teacher reaches a Russian family and stumbles. The list features Ivanov and Ivanova, brother and...
August 20, 2026
Where the Russian language came from, its history and origin
The words «mother,» «brother,» and «home» sound suspiciously similar from Iceland to India. German Mutter, English mother, Latin mater, Sanskrit matar,…
August 20, 2026
Mikhail Lomonosov, the Russian Leonardo da Vinci
Open the seventh-grade physics textbook and read any paragraph aloud. Pendulum, pump, refraction, atmosphere, drawing, diameter, square, minus, horizon,...
August 19, 2026
Anna Akhmatova, poet of an era and keeper of memory
In the winter of the late thirties, outside the Leningrad Kresty prison, there stood a line of women with care packages, and they stood there for months, sometimes with...
August 19, 2026
Lake Baikal, facts, depth and how to get there
At the end of March, the ice on Baikal holds a truck, while being so transparent that a person standing on it sees...
August 18, 2026
Catherine the Great, biography and the Age of Enlightenment in a conversation with a child
A history project happens in the life of every child growing up between two languages. It is usually brought home in the evening, when it is due tomorrow, and…
August 17, 2026
Anton Chekhov, biography, stories and plays
Of all the playwrights in the world, perhaps only Shakespeare is staged more often than Chekhov, and theater marquees from Tokyo to Buenos Aires confirm this year-round…
August 17, 2026
Soviet architecture, Stalinist skyscrapers and Khrushchev-era apartment blocks
A forty-minute walk along a long avenue in any city of the former Soviet Union provides an almost complete overview of the twentieth century. Every few...
August 16, 2026
