Russian Culture
Russian love poems. The best lines by Pushkin, Yesenin, Akhmatova, and Tsvetaeva
Eight lines, written almost two hundred years ago, still remain the formula for the most dignified parting of love. «I loved you:..."
Baba Yaga. Who is she and how has her image changed over the centuries
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...
Sergei Yesenin. Biography, poems, and tragic fate
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...
Orthodoxy and Catholicism. Main Differences
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. What to see and how to spend 3 days
Moscow is a city that's impossible to see in one go; it's too vast, diverse, and fast-paced. But if you have...
Russians in the USA. History, emigration, and life today
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...
USSR. What it was, when it was created, and how it dissolved
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...
Dmitri Mendeleev and the Periodic Table. The History of the Discovery
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...
How many people speak Russian in the world. Facts and statistics
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…
Is Russian difficult to learn?
A mother in a suburb north of Denver has done the reading that many parents in her position…
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