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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...
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…
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…
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...
Some books have opening lines that are remembered even by those who never finished or even opened them. Specifically...
In Russia, Pushkin is everywhere. His fairy tales are read to little children before they can even speak, his lines have long since become proverbs, his...
A person is devouring a plate of dumplings, completely unaware that they are eating ears. This word, according to the most accepted version, was passed down to the Russians from...
The virtuoso walks onto the stage with a wooden triangle with three strings. The instrument looks like it was taken from a souvenir shop shelf...
The Russian language has an expression that says more about the local cuisine than any cookbook. When a person leaves with nothing...
Few people who enjoy slurping borscht suspect that it's not named after the beets at all. The word borscht is...
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