Funny Little Characters If a Russian fox met an American fox, would they get along? If Russian folklore is to be trusted, the answer is a definite нет (no).
Reading is Hard The core of what we do at Russian Life is stuff a suitcase (issue) full of words and pictures, then hand it to readers so that they can travel to a distant world, to get a taste of places they may never visit.
Women at the Top of the World At the top of the world, in the bitter reaches of the Arctic, no man can survive without his chumwife. So why is the state cutting off their salaries?
Art Food & Drink St. Petersburg Travel Piter's People March 23, 2019 Piter's People - Ekaterina Khozatskaya
Culture Transportation Urban Life The Weekly Russia File March 21, 2019 A Dog and a Muscovite Come In from the Cold
August 17, 2018 Resilience ~ The Russian Version (Переживем) Call it resilience, grit, or just perseverance – it takes a special sort of person to have survived the last 100 years of Russian and Soviet history. Nonfiction
May 07, 2015 The Most Useful Russian Inventions By Eugenia Sokolskaya What do radio, television, the periodic table, and helicopters have in common? Russians were involved in developing all of them – and more! Reference Science
August 22, 2016 Magical Kefir By Philip Seifi Kefir is the most popular fermented milk in Russia. But it did not get there overnight. Kefir and Russia have a long history... Food & Drink History
February 03, 2018 12 Myths/Truths About Russians and Vodka By The Editors Think you know your vodka? Take this True/False quiz (just 12 items) about Russians and their vodka and see if you are right about that... Food & Drink
July 01, 2018 Famous People Who Studied Russian By Letitia Rydjeski Studying Russian and finding it a bit challenging? You are not alone. Check out our list of famous people who have studied Russian, and find some fellow-sufferers... Biographies Language Reference
December 12, 2016 Murder and the Muse KGB Chief Andropov has tapped Matyushkin to solve a brazen jewel heist from Picasso’s wife at the posh Metropole Hotel. But when the case bleeds over into murder, machinations, and international intrigue, not everyone is eager to see where the clues might lead. Fiction
November 23, 2018 to March 25, 2019 Exhibition of Rare Russian Prints Green Lion Gallery | Bath, ME Green Lion Gallery & From Russia With Art are presenting an exhibition of etchings and other prints by some of Moscow’s leading artists. Art Exhibit
April 20, 2019 Rachmaninoff, Borodin & Shostakovich Piano Trios The Museum of Russian Art | Minneapolis, MN The Museum of Russian Art is honored to present Rachmaninov, Borodin & Shostakovich Piano Trios Featuring: Natalia Moiseeva, violin; Tanya Remenikova, cello; Denis Evstuhin, piano. Music
May 04, 2019 UW Russian Folk Orchestra Spring 2019 Concert First Unitarian Society | Madison, WI The University of Wisconsin Russian Folk Orchestra, now in its 22nd season, presents its annual Spring Concert. Music
May 19, 2019 Mieczyslaw Weinberg: The Centennial Stephen Wise Free Synagogue | New York, N.Y. Celebrating on of 20th-century most prolific composers with a rare performance of his 24 Cello Preludes along with Mussorgsky's Pictures from an Exhibition. Music
May 20, 2019 2019 Spring Gala The Metropolitan Opera House | New York, NY American Ballet Theatre's 2019 Spring Gala on Monday evening, May 20 will pay tribute to the 10th Anniversary year of Alexei Ratmansky as ABT Artist in Residence. Dance
June 01, 2019 Washington Balalaika Society 30th Anniversary Concert F. Scott Fitzgerald Theater | Rockville, MD The Washington Balalaika Society will celebrate its 30th anniversary with three world-class domra virtuosi, a master of the balalaika, a brilliant and talented conductor and an orchestra of sixty musicians. Music
June 02, 2019 Washington Balalaika Society 30th Anniversary Concert Wakefield High School | Arlington, VA The Washington Balalaika Society will celebrate its 30th anniversary with three world-class domra virtuosi, a master of the balalaika, a brilliant and talented conductor and an orchestra of sixty musicians. Music
February 09, 2019 to June 09, 2019 Surreal Promenade The Museum of Russian Art | Minneapolis, MN A dog with a human hand for a body, a chameleon with a human profile, and a pensive bear drinking a friendly cup with a soldier: these are some examples of the creatures that inhabit the universe of Sergei Isupov, the Russian born, Massachusetts based sculptor and painter. Art Exhibit
February 22, 2019 to June 30, 2019 Konstantin Simun: The Sacred in the Profane Museum of Russian Icons | Clinton, Massachusetts The Sacred in the Profane offers a survey of Simun’s unique capacity to find forms that appear in ancient art and Christian iconography in molded plastic and other consumer objects since his arrival to the United States from Russia in the early 1980s. Art Exhibit
March 16, 2019 to July 07, 2019 Jacques' Menagerie: Hnizdovsky Prints from the Christina and George Gamota Collection Museum of Russian Icons | Clinton, Massachusetts Jacques Hnizdovsky's art expressed his capacity for joy, humor, and hope, most often in of animals from the Bronx Zoo, and has been widely recognized and beloved for over half a century. This exhibition presents a single collection of Hnizdovsky prints (woodcuts, linocuts, and etchings), as well as one of his paintings, which are rarely seen. Art Exhibit
February 23, 2019 to September 01, 2019 The Body in Soviet Art The Museum of Russian Art | Minneapolis, MN The Body in Soviet Art examines the depictions of the human form in Soviet art, featuring more than fifty works created in the 1950s-1970s. Representations of the human body have varied over time and across cultures. Soviet art placed a unique emphasis on the working body as part of a Soviet collective. Art Exhibit
