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Today marks the 185th birthday of the artist Ivan Shishkin, whose paintings evoke Russia's beauty and vastness. With a nickname like "Forest Tsar," his trees must be good.

Maria Plotnikova acquaints us with Tchaikovsky. No, not the composer, the town named for him in Siberia's Perm Krai.

Some people see spies everywhere. Other people just see dumpsters, birds, snow, dogs, boars, or artists seeking political asylum. (That's at least 4 separate stories).

Photographer Kristina Syrchikova explains what a goose has to do with Samara and the Volga River.

The year's coldest ride, hottest statue, most scandalous yoga teacher, and best way to learn the names of all of Russia's federal subjects. And it's just the first TWERF of the year. 

Artist Anastasia Bogomolova takes us on a tour of Chelyabinsk, famous for its meteorite, tanks, and a very special forest.

This astonishingly gripping autobiography by the founder of the Russian Women’s Death Battallion in World War I is an eye-opening documentary of life before, during and after the Bolshevik Revolution.

A tour of ten distinctive Moscow monuments that goes a long way to summarizing the state of the art in Russia today.

Photographer Daria Kozinova takes us on a tour of the capital of the Urals: Yekaterinburg.

A look back at the most popular and/or infamous words and phrases of 2016.

Two quotes that point up the duality of being a Russophile these days.

In which we relive the events of 1917 through the words, memories and actions of some of the main players: politicians, artists, and entrepreneurs.