The Russian Language
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...
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…
Russian loanwords in English. Words you know
If you say the word "babushka" to an Englishman or an American, they'll most likely think not of a kind old woman, but of a headscarf,...
Is Russian difficult to learn?
A mother in a suburb north of Denver has done the reading that many parents in her position…
Merry Christmas in Russian and when celebrate
Daniel is ten, and the question that governs his December is why the tree in his family’s house…
Fyodor Dostoevsky. Biography, ideas, and major novels
On a cold winter morning in a Petersburg square, a group of condemned prisoners were led out for execution. Their death sentences were read aloud, they were dressed in white shrouds, the first...
Crime and Punishment. Summary and Analysis
The title alone seems to promise that the crime will be the main event around which the entire book revolves. But here's a surprising thing: the murder…
Famous Russians in Hollywood. Actors and Actresses
In Hollywood, there's a special type, almost a separate profession: the Russian villain. The cold-blooded spy, the shadowy mafia boss, the stern general who pronounces English words…
Leo Tolstoy. Biography, major books, and personal life
On a deep autumn night, secretly, almost stealthily, an eighty-two-year-old man left his own home. He was not leaving out of poverty and...
Anna Karenina. A brief summary, characters, and the meaning of the novel
Some books have opening lines that are remembered even by those who never finished or even opened them. Specifically...
All tags