Russia has more than just Amber and Agate Rooms. The new Hermitage-Eurasia Center in Orenburg recently opened the Jasper Room ...

Stalingrad, as the city was then called, survived one of the most terrible battles in human history. See how the city, ...

This is not an ordinary idol, this is the idol of the master of the Angara taiga! On the top of a hill, located on the left ...

Leningrad, as the city was then called, survived one of the most terrible sieges in world history – more than a million ...

Like every other name, it has diminutive forms - Саша being the main one that everyone uses in informal communication with ...

The cold season is no reason to stay at home. Let's visit Father Frost (Russian Santa Claus), hunt for the northern lights ...

Want to enjoy beautiful scenery from the train window? Here are some travel ideas that will captivate you with unique and ...

Soviet children grew up on the ‘Three Musketeers’ book, but also on the movie where d'Artagnan speaks… Russian! And, in the ...

Catherine II confessed in a letter to the architect Falconet that she "would like to have a project of an antique house, ...

Reading classic Russian literature in the original language you can find some weird words ending with '-s'. “Извольте-с”, “да ...

Someone who bends his line, not responding to the comments and criticism of others, then it will be said about him: “Васька ...

Every fall Russians pick tons of apples at their dacha countryside. And they literally don't know what do to with them!