
A chronicle of the Russian Revolution of 1917, from the bourgeois democratic February Revolution to ...

Ukrainian journalist Katya Soldak, currently living in New York City and working for Forbes magazine...
The peace treaty of Brest-Litovsk was a dictated peace. With him, however, the German Empire recogni...

The extraordinary life and career of the Russian chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov, a brilliant and c...

A two-part documentary about the fraught relationship between Russian writer Viktor Shklovsky and ém...

Yekaterinburg, Russia, July 17th, 1917. Czar Nicholas II Romanov and his entire family are brutally ...

When a devastating famine descended on Soviet Russia in 1921, it was the worst natural disaster in E...

The explosion at Chernobyl was ten times worse than the Hiroshima bomb and was due to a combination ...

In the late 1980s, an era of great hopes and great disasters for Russia, art proved to be a social b...

Thirty years after the Chernobyl disaster, which occurred on the night of April 26, 1986, its causes...

Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, better known as Lenin, is remembered as the instigator of the October Revol...

A look at Lenin's Mausoleum as a symbol of Russia's enduring and divided legacy.
An examination of the life of great Russian author Leo Tolstoy, who penned the 1877 novel Anna Karen...

Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of Iceland, July 9, 2016. The surprising discovery of a canister —cont...

The Katyn massacre, carried out by the Soviet NKVD in 1940, was only one of many unspeakable crimes ...

St. Petersburg, Russia, December 30th, 1916. Grigori Rasputin is assassinated. The story of the humb...

The story of Russian writer and Soviet dissident Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008) and his masterpi...

2017 marks the centenary of one of the most significant events of the 20th century - the Russian Rev...

Ivan, first tsar of Russia. History will remember him as "the Terrible. Russian people love him for ...