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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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

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

Oymyakon in Yakutia is the coldest village in Russia, considered the “pole of cold”. In 1933, a temperature of minus 67.7°C ( ...

North Ossetia is famous not only for its stunning gorges, waterfalls and lakes, but also for its ancient architecture. Here ...