Eight lines, written almost two hundred years ago, still remain the formula for the most dignified parting of love. «I loved you:..."
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...
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...
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...
Moscow is a city that's impossible to see in one go; it's too vast, diverse, and fast-paced. But if you have...
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...
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...
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...
On the face of it, the question is simple: how many people in the world speak Russian. But there is no exact answer. The numbers in different…
A mother in a suburb north of Denver has done the reading that many parents in her position…
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