History

This year marks the 30th anniversary of Yanka Dyagileva’s punk rock album Anhedonia, the greatest monument to perestroika that you’ve never heard of.

Two reviewers evaluate Catherine the Great through a gender and a storytelling lens.

Seven types of kasha to last you all winter – from farina to kutya, and everything worth eating in between...

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

All of Twitter’s a stage for the Russian Foreign Ministry to promote its view of World War II.

Russian scientists have restored the steppe of Kulikovo – just as it was when the country's seminal battle was fought in 1380.

Scouting has had a long and complicated history in Russia. And, not surprisingly, it gets a bit political.

Among “the Terrible’s” unfortunate wives, Maria Temryukovna, his second, is an interesting case.

On September 28, 1989 – just a few months after Boris Yeltsin's triumph at the Congress of People’s Deputies – the police found a muddied and wet Yeltsin near a dacha community outside Moscow.

On the 80th anniversary of the start of World War II, we review the final events leading to its outbreak in 1939.

Mushrooms have always been a part of the Russian diet, going back to ancient times,

Is Russia somehow different from other nations, or is it just like any other?