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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...
An ordinary word doesn't have a birth date. No one can say in what year Russians started saying «bread» or «road»; linguists argue...
The sunniest holiday on the Russian calendar is celebrated when the sun has already been waning for two weeks. The solstice in this century...
Talk about the Romanovs almost never starts with 1613. It starts with the 1997 animated film that children watch...
An old wooden board used to be found in almost every home. It was brought out in the kitchen after dinner, laid out on a bench in the yard,...
The Russian fairy tale gives away its ending in the very first line. A father had three sons, two smart and the third a fool. The listener...
Russian food has words that trip up any phrasebook. Type "food in Russian" into a search engine, and you'll get a neat column:…
On December thirty-first in Russia, the clock strikes midnight eleven times. Not consecutively, but an hour apart, and each time...
Tim is eleven, lives in Toronto, and talks to his grandmother from Petersburg every Saturday. One Saturday, his grandmother complained...
The plane from Helsinki lands at Sheremetyevo after dark, and the first Russian word Dan hears spoken live, not from an app,...
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