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

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.

There are so many things wrong in the case of historian Yuri Dmitriev, it is hard to know where to start.

Alexander Razeyev spent five years researching the history of his village. He thought people would welcome his work. Surprisingly, they did not.

Catherine I finds herself at a turning point upon the death of her husband, Peter the Great.

As Europe boiled and revolutions fomented, the rulers of Russia, Austria, and Prussia granted themselves the authority to invade other countries in order to maintain calm and protect the power of the ruling monarchs.

This week, education is worth fighting for; corrupt officials go for all-or-nothing; and Lenin's mausoleum makeover is cancelled.

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.