If you build it, they will come. Well, they would, if they weren't all practicing social distancing.

There will surely be some great April Fools' news items this week. These, however, are some that we wish were jokes.

283 years ago today, Vassily Bazhenov was born. Russian architecture would never be the same.

A group of intrepid preservationists toil quietly in Russia’s northern realms to preserve old wooden churches and izbas that are just a snowstorm away from perishing.

Kseniya is an architect, who found her passion in jewelry making.

Activists in Moscow are crowdfunding to restore century-old signs, and uncovering traces of a buzzing and eclectic merchant city.

Sleepy Pskov has everything a historic Russian town ever needed: a winding river, a kremlin, and whitewashed churches – all of which have finally received global recognition from UNESCO.

Dusya is a Vasiliyevsky Island local, whose job it is to promote a creative space located on the island – Sevkabel Port. 

A fortress town built half a millennium ago by Ivan the Terrible (to conquer Kazan) is enjoying a new life as a cultural tourism destination.

If these walls could talk. The history and horror of one of the most epic construction projects of the Soviet era.

In which we review a novel about Bulgakov and his love, Margarita (Mikhail and Margarita, by Julie Himes); Soviet Salvage, by Catherine Walworth; and The House of Government, by Yuri Slezkine.

A strange church in St. Petersburg’s outskirts offers a fascinating historical side trip.