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.
April 01, 1999 Nabokov on Gogol Comparing the two authors, who stand as literary bookends for the 20th century.
April 01, 1999 Rostov Veliky A jewel in the Golden Ring, Rostov Veliky remains little touched by the tumultuous tides of this century's history. Travel
April 01, 1999 April and May in History Dates and anniversaries that coincide with this spring issue.
April 01, 1999 Twice-baked Sturgeon This tasty dish wraps a succulent sturgeon in a puff pastry for a dish sure to amaze.
February 01, 1999 A Collector's Passion Valery Blinov has single-handedly collected what may be the world's greatest archive of Russian children's books of the last 100 years.
February 01, 1999 Exploring Russia's Sexual Revolution As if economic and political revolutions were not enough for Russia in the 1990s! Russia's Sexual Revolution is challenging decades of Soviet prudishness, with all the expected side-effects.
