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In March 1863, Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin offered a biting critique of contemporary literature that is as humorous as it is significant.

History offered Zoe Paleologue little hope. Her homeland overrun, her royal pedigree in tatters... And then the Tsar of all the Russias needed a new wife...

A look back at the genius that was Mandelstam, on the 100th anniversary of the publication of his first book of poetry.

Sixty years ago Stalin died and the Soviet Union was in collective shock. So much has been written about this event that we decided to take a different tack, offering a selection of first person accounts from that time.

One year from the opening of the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics, we look at some of the less conventional bits of news about the coming games.

The January 2013 acid attack on Bolshoi Artistic Director Sergei Filin has cast a dark shadow over the workings of Russia's most esteemed cultural institution.

A look at portyanki, telnyashki and other mysteries of military garb.

Whenever I read about Constance Garnett, doyenne of Russian-to-English literary translation, sitting in the garden and banging out her work with scarcely a break for reflection (“She would finish a page,” D.H. Lawrence tells us, “and throw it off on a pile on the floor without looking up...”), I don’t know whether to laugh or cry.

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Like many frequent travelers to Russia, I have countless train-related memories of Russia, most of them positive.

Orest Kiprensky was one of Russia's finest early nineteenth-century painters. We share a painting he created in 1813.

A look back at the life and contribution of opera singer, actress and dissident Galina Vishnevskaya, who passed away in December.