Count Alexei Bestuzhev-Ryumin lived in Europe from a young age. In 1707, he and his brother Mikhail went to study in ...

Russia’s wolf population is the highest in the world. It’s no wonder that these gray forest dwellers have appeared in so many ...

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The ‘Yuri Gagarin’ Cosmonaut Training Center, established in 1960, is located there. The settlement is closed to the public, ...

The ‘Kino’ rock band and its frontman were iconic in the music scene of the late 1980s and early 1990s and considered true ...

These movies were created at the dawn of Russian cinematography, but still amaze viewers even today. This was one of the ...

The Guard in 18th-century Russia loosely resembled the Praetorians of the Roman Empire. It was often up to them to decide who ...

All the nobility of the Russian Empire, including the tsar's family, liked to spend their holidays on the southern Russian ...

Makovsky painted ‘The Kissing Rite’ in his Paris studio in 1895; a year later, he presented it at the All-Russian exhibition ...

Long winters, strong winds and extremely low temperatures – these settlements are located in the harshest climates imaginable ...

Salekhard is the only city in the world located on the Arctic Circle. Here are three of its main symbols.

Saints canonized before the division of the church into Catholic and Orthodox are equally revered by both faiths. For example ...