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Unexpected nude photos of Nicholas II appeared online last week, causing quite a stir, despite being more than a century old.

Putin might be a fan of Trump, but Russian zoo animals apparently aren't.

The Museum Ludwig in Cologne, Germany, is turning a negative into a positive: breaking art world taboos by launching a major new exhibition on Russian art fakes it has unearthed within its own walls.

News from around Russia, on everything from bicycles to Bunin, from mystery graves to trolleybuses.

The extraordinary life and times of one of Russia's most important doctors.

War Communism was on the ropes in the fall of 1920. What's a dictator to do?

Superstitious Russians — 99 percent of my acquaintances — believe that any високосный год (leap year) is an unlucky year. I scoffed until 2020.

Improve your language by learning some tongue twisters.

A well-to-do Russian tries to bring his green new ideal to life in a Russian village. Not all goes to plan.

On this, the 300th anniversary of one of literature’s most famous fabulists, we look back at some of Russia’s greatest liars and taletellers.

In which we review Dina Rubina's Leonardo's Handwriting, and the nonfiction book, The Pianos of Siberia.

For several generations of Russians, few things signal Christmas and New Year’s better than tangerines. So we offer a delicious holiday cake built around this fruit.