It is considered one of the most famous Russian novels and is a delicate view on the nature of a typical Russian man. The ...

There are many temples in Samara: the Pokrovsky Cathedral, which looks like a fairy-tale ‘terem’ (country house), the old ...

Without retelling the myths and legends about ‘Grandpa Lenin’, let's turn to some confirmed facts in his biography.

Russia has been preparing healthy and nutritious drinks centuries before smoothies and milkshakes became popular. Below, ...

A 72-ton giant bell rings on big church holidays in the main Russia’s monastery. The biggest and most famous bell, the Tsar ...

As the opening credits to Quentin Tarantino’s ‘Inglorious Basterds’ appear, a melancholic melody begins to play. Fans of ...

You fight like a girl!” was a phrase often thrown around during Catherine II’s reign with undisguised delight. The empress ...

The old expression “Типун тебе на язык” ("Tipun tebe na yazyk" or literally "I wish you had a pimple on your tongue!") can be ...

Anna Kornilova, a young master iconographer, reinterprets ancient art in her icons. We talked to her about why she chose this ...

We'll tell you where the exotic fruit came from in Russia and why, in Soviet times, bananas were given to the 'front-runners' ...

The Crimean Khanate posed the biggest problem of all the fragments of the Golden Horde; its troops once even burned Moscow.

You probably know that brown bears and polar bears live in Russia. And, in the Far East, there is another species of these ...