Russian Calendar

A look back at year end stock-taking, at changes that have been promised in years past, and promises that have been un-kept.

Stepping through hundreds of years of history, we look back at signal events that have occurred in these fall months.

Since the Bolshevik Revolution struck, Russia has had a particularly cursed experience with the month of August.

In which we look back at spring events that have shaped Russian history in years ending in 8.

In which we look back and turning points in March: in 1918, 1953, and (perhaps) 2018. The season of thaw and the onset of spring is fraught with omens.

On February 3, 1718, Emperor Peter I issued a manifesto depriving Alexei, his son by his first wife, of the right to succeed him to the throne.

February 1, 1818 was a milestone in the history of Russian culture, marking the release of the first eight volumes of Nikolai Karamzin’s History of the Russian State.

What did Russians experience during January and February in bygone days?

All this year, in connection with the centennial of the 1917 revolutions, Calendar has offered readers a view of that year through the eyes of contemporaries. This issue we conclude the series with a look at what was going on in the pivotal months of November and December 1917.

In which we look at the events of 1917 through the words and works of the politicians, artists, and luminaries living through them.

In which we look at the revolutionary year through the eyes of the people living through it. In this issue, the politicians, the tsar, and Alexander Blok.

In which we look at the revolutionary year through the eyes of the people living through it.