October 01, 1996 Blood for the Revolution Thrown from simple peasant life into an elitist world of cold machinery, cruel hierarchy and political extremism, Russia's sailors became a fearless, and fearsome, fighting force in Russia's revolutions. Alexei Kilichenkov traces their evolution in the years 1905-21.
October 01, 1996 Dawn of the Russian Navy On October 20, 1696, a now legendary resolution, "Let there be sea ships," was passed by the Boyar Duma, heralding the beginning of the Russian navy. Lev Pushkaryov examines how this event came to change the Russian mentality.
October 01, 1996 On Moscow's Orders The previously unknown story of a submarine sent to the waters off Israel in 1968, with the intent of firing eight nuclear warheads ...
October 01, 1996 Drama for Contemporaries A look back at the 40th anniversary of Moscow's famed "Sovremmenik" theater.
October 01, 1996 40 and Counting: Four Decades of Russian Life A look at the magazine's beginnings in 1956 (as USSR) and of its partner publication, Amerika Illustrated. Download the article as PDF.]
October 01, 1996 Setting the Standard It has taken well over 250 years, but it seems an unfulfilled wish of Peter the Great is finally to be carried out. As Lisa Dickey observes, a replica of a ship which he captained personally is being built by enthusiasts.
September 01, 1996 Show Your Colors Make your Russian colorful. Idioms and phrases that use the language of color.
September 01, 1996 Battle for the Harvest You don't see fields of grain and columns of collectivist combines glorified on the evening news in Russia anymore. And little is heard about the plight of the country's new private farmer class. Which is why, on the occassion of this year's fall harvest, we sent Yelena Utenkova out into the fields. She returned with a story of the modern farm in Russia, against the backdrop of a tumultuous history.
September 01, 1996 Don't Blame the Weather For better or for worse, heat in Russia — whether the climatic or the political variety — doesn’t last too long.
