The life of Rasputin's daughter, Maria, was full of twists and turns almost as dramatic as her father's, and took her deep into the American heartland.

A lovely short film on Brighton Beach's Your Highness Babushka Beauty Contest.

This week arts and crafts flourish under quarantine; a heatwave hits an unlikely place, and coronavirus fashion hits a new high (or low?).

The little-known fates of the wives of Ivan the Terrible's son.

When the daughter of one of Europe’s most respected kings married the tsar’s son, it seemed like a match made in Heaven. And then the Kremlin court rivalries began.

In this week's Odder News, the Moscow Zoo tries a new marketing tactic; a consumer protection agency gives its condom recommendations; and high winds call for desperate measures.

A Russian woman makes 2 million euros through illicit means.

A public opinion survey reveals that Russians are averse to a woman holding Putin's office.

On the occasion of the great writer’s 160th birthday, we offer up one of his lesser-known classics, newly translated.

Russia has everything, including Amazonians.

The wealthiest woman on the African continent is, apparently, a Russian citizen.

170 years ago this week, January 15, 1850, the mathematician Sofia Kovalevskaya was born.