June 01, 1999 Doing it His Way Boris Yeltsin in a flurry of activity while the Duma tries to impeach him. Little did we know he would only be in office a few more months...
June 01, 1999 Two worth an eaten egg Caviar stuffed eggs and an Egg & Cheese Salad are the two egg dishes in question.
June 01, 1999 Three Books Reviewed We review four new books: Moscow Rediscovered, Pushkin: A Biography, Pushkin's Button, and Chronicle of the Russian Tsars.
June 01, 1999 My Pushkin, Our Pushkin There are many Pushkins. But only Russia can truly claim him as its own. For Pushkin made Russian literature what it is. Included in this piece are amazing photos from films based on Pushkin's works, plus excerpts, in Russian and English, from his most famous works.
April 01, 1999 The Poet of Laughter Russian Life visits with a leading expert on Nikolai Gogol, to consider the writer's legacy and influence. Interview
April 01, 1999 Lights, Camera ... Lights, camera ... a plethora of filmographic idioms and phrases for your lexicon.
April 01, 1999 30 Years Under the White Sun Russians' favorite movie, White Sun of the Desert, turns 30 this month. But for the movie's director, Vladimir Motyl, it has not been three decades of glamour and fame.
April 01, 1999 Close Quarters: The Rise & Fall of the Kommunalka Seven percent of Russians live in communal apartments, kommunalki. By all indications, this dinosaur from the communist era will not be extinct anytime soon.
April 01, 1999 A Chichikov For Our Times A review of Mark Zakharov's new play, Mystification, based loosely on Gogol's Dead Souls.
April 01, 1999 A Birthday Gift A short piece on the centennial birthday celebration for Nabokov to be held in his childhood home in downtown St. Petersburg.
