Russians adore ice cream and even eat it in the freezing winter! So, let’s learn the names for all kinds of ice cream in ...
After a year and a half of renovation, Moscow's ‘Multimedia Art Museum’ (MAMM) has finally opened its doors to visitors with ...
Why, under Paul I, were men not allowed to wear shoes with ribbons instead of bucklesand, under Peter I, to walk in shoes lined with iron nails?
For two years, the residents of Vulkan asked authorities to build them a bridge, but were invariably told that there was no ...
Brave Soviet police, cunning spies and good old detective mysteries. We’ve compiled a short list of the main detective movies ...
The hero of Nikolai Gogol's ‘Dead Souls’, landowner Stepan Alexandrovich Plyushkin, was a rare miser, wore a greasy, tattered ...
These heroines are not only remembered and loved by audiences in the USSR, they are still known and quoted today!
He has everything inside out!” is an emotional way to talk about someone who has everything going wrong, the other way around ...
In Moscow, street food is not just a snack during a walk, but a whole gastronomic adventure that allows you to get acquainted with a variety ...
Among the Karelian forests and lakes, away from noisy roads, is the balneological and mud resort of Marcial Waters.
As soon as they saw the painting by Pavel Fedotov, visitors to the exhibition at the Academy of Arts began to smile widely ...