Vladimir is now just a small city near Moscow. But, it was once the capital of a powerful principality. Here are three of its ...

A loving couple sailing in a boat; a funny pair of snails; a girl reading a book while hugging her favorite teddy bear – ...

Paul I lived in the Mikhailovsky Castle for only forty days. And Peter I came up with a project for a mansion on the seashore ...

Except for works describing real historical events, such as ‘War and Peace’ or ‘The Captain's Daughter’, Russian writers ...

Imagine: A train from Moscow to Vladivostok, seven days on the road, the Internet is almost always down… “What would you do?” ...

While the Brits drank their 5 o’clock tea, the Soviet people had ‘poldnik’. Which actually translates as a ‘half-day’ snack. ...

The Soviet poet loved animals and there are many other photos of him with cats. In this particular photo, Mayakovsky is ...

In modern Russia, new mothers get to stay on their maternal leave for at least one year or even up to three years, when their ...

Bloody peasant uprisings, Mongol conquests, the Great Patriotic War and the conquest of space - you will see all this and much more in these movies.

- Иван Васильевич меняет профессию (Ivan Vasilievich Changes His Profession), - Бриллиантовая рука (The Diamond Arm), - Служебный роман (Office Romance), - Операция ‘Ы’ и другие приключения Шурика ...

The most successful Soviet fighter pilots of that conflict had no previous serious combat experience. They did not fight ...

A new cable car system in Nizhny Novgorod has opened on the site of a lost historical one: Its stations connect People's ...