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
Mikhail Bulgakov and The Master and Margarita, what the novel is about and why it is a masterpiece
In the autumn of 1966, subscribers to Moskva magazine received the eleventh issue, which began the publication of a novel that had sat in a desk drawer for twenty-six years...
August 16, 2026
Russian proverbs about friendship and what lies behind them
«Have not a hundred rubles, but have a hundred friends.» «An old friend is better than two new ones.» Read both in succession. The first one tells you to make friends...
August 16, 2026
How to write a letter in Russian and not get the tone wrong
Fourteen-year-old Artyom from Vancouver wrote to his Russian school teacher. He asked to reschedule a test because he was ill, missed the topic, and was ready to take it in...
August 15, 2026
Sofia Kovalevskaya, the world's first female professor of mathematics
In the summer of 1874, an unusual case was being considered at the University of Göttingen. Three mathematical papers sent from Berlin were accompanied by a recommendation from Weierstrass himself, who asked...
August 15, 2026
Swan Lake and other Tchaikovsky ballets
The evening of February 20, 1877, Moscow, Bolshoi Theatre. The premiere is taking place, the ballet «Swan Lake,» with music written by Conservatory professor Pyotr Tchaikovsky, for...
August 14, 2026
How to check an outline map, a point-by-point analysis, and formatting rules
The outline map is filled out, the child is happy, and the parent looks at the sheet and doesn't know whether to scold or praise. There are about nine remarks piling up,...
August 13, 2026
