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In which we review Amy Knight's Orders to Kill, Linor Goralik's Found Life, a new translation of Monday Starts on Saturday, and the new novel Gogol's Head.

A Russian entrepreneur and family save a village, start an agro business, and share a recipe for Tatar pies.

In which we tour four museums in four cities and towns in Russia and Ukraine, to see what they tell us about soceity more broadly.

We travel to a distant, Siberian lake, Russia’s second deepest, in search of the remains of ancient Evenk culture. The reindeer may be largely gone, but fishing is still an important, and powerful, shared tradition.

In this issue’s Uchites, we look at New Year’s by reading a very old text and learning a popular children’s song.

Every year, a group of Russian word-lovers vote on the word – or rather words – of the year. Here are the results.

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?

Things worth knowing on the travel front.

The Tretyakov Gallery has completed restoration of a defining artwork of the Russian avant-garde: the ornithopter, or flying machine, created by Vladimir Tatlin in 1932.

With the turning of the calendar, it is time to look forward, and to think about what this magazine must become.