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...
History has several pivotal years that act as turning points, after which a country awakens to a different reality. For Russia, such a year is 1917. And it's a rare case:…
The story of the last Russian Tsar is, above all, a story of family, and it is easier to understand if one keeps this in mind from the very beginning...
Imagine this for a moment. The sovereign of a vast empire, who is supposed to be seated on a throne in gold and receiving ambassadors, instead...
It's a strange thing: about the first Russian Tsar, we know both too much and frustratingly little at once. Too many frightening images,...
Imagine you've come to Russia and want to start speaking Russian. You're seated at a desk and given a thick textbook. Pages scribbled with incomprehensible...
Russian is the native language for millions of people in Russia and beyond. This language is famous for its emotionality, a huge number of epithets...
Do you think old Russian words are a thing of the past? Well, they're not! Every language changes over time. New items appear…
The history of women in science spans many hundreds of years. They have always strived for discovery, even when society belonged to men. We…
Did you know that the first person in the world to decipher Mayan hieroglyphs was a Soviet historian? His name was Yuri Knorozov, and he was born on the 19th...
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