September 01, 1996 The Salad They Didn't Like in the Kremlin Kremlyovsky salat -- a delicious salad with salmon, rice, onions and mayo.
August 01, 1996 How Do We Feel, Doctor? Health and doctor related phrases and idioms are this issue's prescription for improving your Russian.
August 01, 1996 Getting in a Jam How to make varenye -- in this case a superb raspberry jam ideal for eating with tea.
August 01, 1996 Here Comes the Nevesta Marx was scornful, Engels was scathing. In his headier days, Lenin considered it a deplorably bourgeois means of oppressing women. But even in Soviet times, Russians got married. Now the way people go about tying the conjugal knot is changing too. Christina Ling takes a look at marriage in Russia, past and present.
August 01, 1996 Samovars President Boris Yeltsin decreed that this year be counted the 250th anniversary of the samovar. What better occasion for Lisa Dickey to visit the world's largest private collection of samovars, now on display in St. Petersburg?
August 01, 1996 The Baptizers An excerpt from "A Land Owned by Russia," a book to be published that describes the assimilatio nof Alaska, the Aleutian Islands and northern California by Russian explorers in the 17th-19th centuries, and the work of traders and missionaries in that period.
August 01, 1996 Kamchatka: Where the River Runs Hot The wilderness of Kamchatka provided Andrew Tarica with stunning volcanic scenery and a lifetime best day of fishing. In this issue's Travel Journal, he tells the story. Travel
August 01, 1996 Keeping the Doctor Away Tips on navigating the Russian medical system and how to prepare yourself before you travel.
