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Russian Culture
The Russian Language
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:..."
June 12, 2026
Olga Kuropteva
Russian Culture
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...
June 11, 2026
Olga Kuropteva
Russian Culture
The Russian Language
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...
June 11, 2026
Olga Kuropteva
History of Russia
The Cold War. Causes, events, and who won
There are wars that leave behind ruins and mass graves. And there once was a war in which the two main armies of the planet...
June 11, 2026
Olga Kuropteva
Russian Culture
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...
June 11, 2026
Olga Kuropteva
Multilinguals
Raising multilingual children, and what multilingualism gives a child
The evening is a weekday one, in a suburb located west of Boston. Vera is eight.…
June 11, 2026
Voronov Mikhail
History of Russia
Yuri Gagarin. The first man in space
On April 12, 1961, at a cosmodrome in the middle of the Kazakh steppe, a man in a spacesuit said one short word. "Let's go." And the rocket took off...
June 10, 2026
Olga Kuropteva
Russian is a Slavic language spoken primarily in Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan. It is the official language of Russia and one of the six official languages of the United Nations. Russian has a rich literary tradition, with famous writers such as Leo Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoevsky, and Anton Chekhov. The Russian alphabet is based on the Cyrillic script, which was developed in the 9th century by Saints Cyril and Methodius. The language has a complex grammar with six cases, three genders, and two numbers. Russian is known for its phonetic pronunciation, with words generally pronounced as they are written.
Russian language facts, numbers, and curiosities
Mila is eleven, and her week was taken up by a poster on the Russian language, so the questions she…
June 10, 2026
Voronov Mikhail
How to say in Russian
С днём рождения (S dnyom rozhdeniya)
Max is eight, and his grandmother's birthday was the first occasion on which something in Russian that…
June 10, 2026
Voronov Mikhail
Russian Culture
The Russian Language
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...
June 10, 2026
Olga Kuropteva