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

The Belgian corps fought on the Eastern Front, until the Bolsheviks took power in the country. However, they did not want to ...

Alexander Kazakov survived the Great War safely, but the Civil War that broke out after it in Russia literally broke him.

You can't always immediately understand what these posters and postcards are advertising. But, it’s impossible to take your eyes off them!

In the USSR, science was considered one of the key tools for building communism. After the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution, the ...

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

Mikhail Kupriyanov, Porfiry Krylov and Nikolai Sokolov – are widely known not only in Russia, but also abroad. Their ...

The treasures of Troy were shown there and one of the floors of the museum is still decorated with copies of high reliefs of ...

On November 9 each year, Russia celebrates the birthday of the famous 19th century novelist. He was born in 1818 and, for some reason, was a little lost in the shadow of Tolstoy’s and Dostoyevsky’s ...

The length of the underground labyrinths in Irkutsk Region is more than 70 kilometers, but research is still ongoing.

Together with the Red Army, the 1st Polish Army stormed Berlin in the Spring of 1945. The Poles made up a tenth of all the ...

Vladimir Mayakovsky wrote a poem about it, including the following line: “Every proletarian should see the Planetarium!” The ...