May 01, 2007 An Icon's Journey Through History Discovered in a Russian forest 700 years ago, the Kursk Root Icon has a storied past - recently as a touchstone for the Russian Orthodox Church in exile. But the Church is reunifying. What of the icon?
May 01, 2007 The Railroad Less Traveled The Baikal-Amur Mainline is the other Trans-Siberian. More northerly, it runs through a range of Eastern Siberia largely untouched by human habitation.
May 01, 2007 A Lucky Man Maximilian Voloshin was a poet and painter, a critic and translator. His home in the Crimea was a refuge for most of the Silver Age's brightest literary and artistic talents. And yet, he is little known.
May 01, 2007 Something About Nothing A consideration of the number 0 in Russian and how to make something from nil.
May 01, 2007 Pushkin's Other Square A look at the other Pushkin statue: the one in his hometown, which was erected on the 250th anniversary (celebrated 4 years late) of St. Petersburg's birth.
May 01, 2007 Barclay de Tolly A profile of the unrecognized hero of the war of 1812. It was he, not Kutuzov, who was the architect of Russia's retreat and victory. So whyhas Kutuzov gotten all the glory?
May 01, 2007 The Seven Years War This long European war was not Russia's fight. But of course it did not sit on the sidelines, despite much turmoil at court during these turning point years in Russian history.
May 01, 2007 A Pie Filled With Nostalgia A look at chebureki - Tatar meat pies that are so beloved that poems have been written about them!
May 01, 2007 Spies, Rebels, Ilf & Petrov and a Slynx A incredible new reference work on spies, an account of the Potemkin mutiny, a 1930s travelogue of the US by two of the greatest Soviet writers, and a novel by Tatyana Tolstaya are the books reviewed this issue. Oh, and several new travel guides as well.
