In the spring of 1992, a Russian man knocked on the doors of the UK Embassy in Riga, Latvia. From the bottom of his bag, he pulled out a sample of classified files he had allegedly smuggled out of ...

Surrounded by Russians led by Alexander Nevsky, the knights of the Livonian Order (an autonomous branch of the Teutonic Order), wearing heavy metal armor, break the ice of the lake with their ...

On the day I left the Russian capital, every single flight to Sochi was overbooked. It was November 2021 and the demand to leave the greyness, sleet and an upcoming lockdown in Moscow was so high ...

Forests are what you'll see out of the train window for most of your journey on the Trans-Siberian. Sometimes this landscape of endless lines of trees outside the train window does not change for ...

Culinary historians are still arguing about where the kalach appeared first. But the main kalach “promoter” is considered to be a Moscow baker named Ivan Filippov. Since the mid-19th century ...

Tobolsk appeared on the Russian map during the conquest of Siberia: In 1582, under the leadership of Yermak Russian troops occupied the Siberian Khanate’s capital of Kashlyk and, in 1587, a few ...

Tatar-Mongol invaders did not reach Pskov, so several of the local churches dating back to the 12-13th centuries have survived to our day and are now listed as UNESCO World Heritage sites. For ...

Soviet Union, the Congress of Soviets, Soviet of Federation – the word has been and is still widely used in Russia, but what does it exactly mean?

During the 70 years of the existence of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the number of constituent parts changed, but most of the time there were 15 of them. Here is the list.

24,000-year-old rotifers In June 2021, it was reported that Russian scientists had discovered a rotifer that was at least 24,000 years old. Furthermore, they managed to revive it and it even began ...

Upon his release, 30-year-old Rokotov managed to organize a smoothly-operating network for buying up hard currency and consumer goods. His main source of hard currency came to be the employees of ...

At the same time, the older generation, which still remembered Emperor Paul I of Russia's friendship with Napoleon, held the Corsican in high esteem for their own reasons. To them, Napoleon, who ...