Growing up in post-Soviet Russia can make you crave anything foreign. Here is how a salad helped a Russian millennial develop a taste for her own culture.

A baseball dating back to the 12th century has been unearthed in one of Russia's oldest cities.

Two hundred years ago, the first sighting of Antarctica was recorded – by a Russian expedition. The author retraces the expedition’s steps, and not without hiccups.

When Tolstoy started Anna Karenina, he was forty-four. He guessed that he would finish the novel, conceived as only a novella, in two weeks. Anna Karenina took him more than four years.

Looking back at the life and work of the legendary filmmaker, and how views of him have changed over time.

How a progressive regiment was crushed by a single, petty man.

The Great Stand on the Ugra River, a confrontation in the autumn of 1480, has come to be known as an emblematic moment in Russian history. Yet things are not always what they seem.

At a time when international travel has come to a screeching halt, I can think of little better service our magazine can provide than to take readers to far-flung places.

This week: Soviet-relic bunkers burst forth with new life; Soviet-relic vehicles get new life; and Soviet-relic apartments crack under the pressures of life.

Was it aliens? Secret nuclear testing? Bigfoot? The Russian Prosecutor-General's office claims to have solved one of Soviet Russia's most perplexing mysteries.

A Lenin statue in Russia's Far East temporarily sported a new 'do.

Russia and Turkey are split over the use of an iconic Istanbul— er, Constantinople— monument.