For one month only, the Russian Museum is celebrating the life of Fyodor Dostoyevsky with a 200th birthday exhibit.

On this, the occasion of the great writer's 200th birthday, we offer some links to stories we have published about him over the years, as well as some cool videos. Happy reading and viewing!

Eleven recent biopics highlight fascinating histories of Russians of ages past.

For the first time in history, a Viking-style longship sails the waters of the Angara river near Lake Baikal. 

The internet has been talking about Ilya Repin's painting Barge Haulers on the Volga a lot lately but, as usual, it is ignoring history.

A wedding fit for a Romanov went down in St. Petersburg on the first of October.

Archaeologists have just completed digging through layers of cultural strata in the middle of the Kremlin, unearthing some interesting finds they totally forgot were down there.

Russia's independent press faces innumerable pressures. Former Russian Life Editor Mikhail Ivanov (1995–2003) describes how economic issues have long plagued the Russian media system.

A decade has passed since an entire Russian professional hockey team was lost in a moment.

If you love the sea, Ivan Aivazovsky is your man. Everyone should know about this Armenian-Russian painter.

In this week's Odder News, enormous pumpkins, LARPing in honor of Alexander Nevsky, and horses in cars.

Let's take a trip to a nation that no longer exists! We've got an old hard-cover travel guide to lead the way.