Open the seventh-grade physics textbook and read any paragraph aloud. Pendulum, pump, refraction, atmosphere, drawing, diameter, square, minus, horizon,...
In the winter of the late thirties, outside the Leningrad Kresty prison, there stood a line of women with care packages, and they stood there for months, sometimes with...
At the end of March, the ice on Baikal holds a truck, while being so transparent that a person standing on it sees...
A history project happens in the life of every child growing up between two languages. It is usually brought home in the evening, when it is due tomorrow, and…
Of all the playwrights in the world, perhaps only Shakespeare is staged more often than Chekhov, and theater marquees from Tokyo to Buenos Aires confirm this year-round…
A forty-minute walk along a long avenue in any city of the former Soviet Union provides an almost complete overview of the twentieth century. Every few...
In the autumn of 1966, subscribers to Moskva magazine received the eleventh issue, which began the publication of a novel that had sat in a desk drawer for twenty-six years...
«Have not a hundred rubles, but have a hundred friends.» «An old friend is better than two new ones.» Read both in succession. The first one tells you to make friends...
Fourteen-year-old Artyom from Vancouver wrote to his Russian school teacher. He asked to reschedule a test because he was ill, missed the topic, and was ready to take it in...
In the summer of 1874, an unusual case was being considered at the University of Göttingen. Three mathematical papers sent from Berlin were accompanied by a recommendation from Weierstrass himself, who asked...