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A look back at the events and controversies that engaged Russia and the world in 1956, the year that Russian Life was founded.

Matt Traver decided to walk across Siberia and create a documentary film in the process. His first leg didn’t go very smoothly.

Boris Anrep left Russia after the Revolution and made a life in Britain as one of world’s greatest artists. But in Russia he left behind a great love named Akhmatova.

The 11th International Festival of Landscape Art, Arkhstoyanie, took place on July 23-24 in Kaluga Oblast. We sent Nadezhda Grebennikova and Mikhail Mordasov to take a look.

Russian Wedding Pie (Kurnik) makes great party fare, but it also has an interesting history connected to fall holidays.

Vladimir Arsenyev was a 28-year-old army officer when he set out to map and study Russia’s Ussuri Kray, bordering China and the Pacific. Thankfully, he also had an eloquent pen.

A century-old work of art by an avant-garde artist has become a symbol for the growing rift between Russia and Ukraine, just as more is being learned about its famous artist.

Two superbly captured athletic moments for two Russian athletes at the Rio games.

Reviews of two books by Teffi and a novel, Masha Regina, by Vadim Leventhal.

Sixty years ago, bureaucrats and journalists on opposite sides of the Iron Curtain came to a remarkable agreement that led to the founding of Russian Life...

It's a tough week for transport in Russia, with a tractor parade, a smugglers' road, a bear on the loose, and an unwieldy matryoshka to top it all off.

Constantin Fedin takes us to the mining capital of Western Siberia: Kemerovo.