2012-03-20 06:43
What did the Soviet people know about USA? How did they see America? California Today is a short documentary (26 minutes) made in 1976 by the Soviet television. Nature, American working clas… Read More
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2012-01-03 20:28
The first one is a brilliantly erratic Poemas del río Wang. Multilingual, colorful, aimless, meditative and absolute must read.
The second one is in Russian, but in most cases all you… Read More
2011-10-03 09:26
I've found an old album of watercolor illustrations to “War and Peace” by Leo Tolstoy. The illustrations were published in 1893 as a free supplement to magazine “Sever&rdqu&hell…Read More
2011-09-27 18:50
In 2009, I wrote about a fictional occupation of the USSR by the USA: The World War that never happened. Recently, I learned about some more wars that never happened. Or was it the same war?… Read More
2011-03-05 21:33
Rodric Braithwaite, former U.K. ambassador to Russia and the author of
the book “Afgantsy. The Russians in Afghanistan 1979-89” was
interviewed by Olga Smirnova from the BBC Russ… Read More
2011-01-24 17:37
I can't say I enjoy reading about that scary period of the Russian history called the Civil War, but I often read memoirs about those years. I often think about their authors: what did they… Read More
2010-11-21 11:17
One more post to commemorate 100th anniversary of the death of count Leo Tolstoy. Below is a quotation from L. Tolstoy's essay “The kingdom of god is within you”. In spite of the… Read More
2010-11-11 22:37
When I started reading “War and Peace” one month ago, I didn't even remember about the upcoming hundredth anniversary of Tolstoy's death. Today, I finished reading it and it… Read More
2010-10-31 14:40
The Alexander Railway Bridge was opened on August 30, 1880. In the end of 19th centuryBy that time, it was the longest bridge in Europe, 1436 meters. It was also the last large bridge in Rus… Read More
2010-10-31 14:39
Since 1827, The Third Section of His Imperial Majesty's Own Chancellery produced special reports for the tsar, describing the moral and political situation in the Russian society. Four years… Read More
2010-09-03 11:23
On December 18, 2007, I wrote about the march organized by African students in Moscow in 1963 as a protest against the murder of a student from Ghana. One of our readers, Mark Thorpe, wrot… Read More
2010-08-17 05:22
The text below is taken from the record of the meeting of Stalin and W. Averell Harriman, the U.S. Ambassador to the USSR. Full declassified document is available here. The text was publishe… Read More
2010-01-07 22:39
Recently, I stumbled upon a web-site on the art of photography, some pages of which were devoted to the classic photographers. The web-site features a large collection of shots made by these… Read More
2010-01-04 18:18
I thought it might be a good New Year's gift to the readers :) Read More
2009-03-20 13:37
On April 1, Nikolay Gogol will be 200. Unknown fans recently launched the web-site Gogol200.ru. It's in Russian, but you can view a huge collection of illustrations to Gogol's books. Explore… Read More
2009-03-19 12:53
These guys dig Russia. Or so it seems at the first glance.
The Financial Crisis and the Six Pillars of Russian Strength.
I've always been a bit skeptical about all those "objective" circumst… Read More
2009-03-11 11:35
1953
Changes in the Soviet government. G. Malenkov became the prime-minister. K. Voroshilov was appointed the chairman of Supreme Soviet. L. Beriya, whose name would be remembered for a ver… Read More
2009-03-11 11:34
1780
(28 February Old Style)
In 1775, when British colonies in America began their war for independence, France and Spain supported the separatists and Great Britain had to look for allies… Read More
2009-03-11 11:34
1888
(26 February Old Style)
The experiment set by Alexander Stoletov is finally successful. The photoelectric effect was first observed in 1839 by Becquerel, but its discovery is usually… Read More
2009-03-10 06:40
A little follow-up to the yesterday's article which mentioned two US plans of nuclear attacks on the USSR. Earlier this year the amazing Strange Maps blog published this article: The World W… Read More
2009-03-09 14:14
Today, Yuri Gagarin would be 75...
And two days ago Dmitry Kozlov, the designer of the carrier Vostok, that took Gagarin into space, has died in Samara.
Dmitry Ilyich Kozlov was born in… Read More
2009-03-05 07:16
On 25 December I wrote about the 1991 referendum on the preservation of the Soviet Union, where 76.43% of all citizens chose to keep the Union "as a modernized federation of equal sovereign… Read More
2009-03-02 21:40
A little warm-up after the long absence :).
A phrase I heard today on Russian TV:
There are two countries in Europe, where people, when saying "Europe", mean all European countries but the… Read More
2009-01-23 14:01
(From Starosti.ru)
In 1909, just like in the previous three years, Russian major cities, especially Moscow and St.Petersburg, awaited for the 22 January (9 January Old Style) with anxiety… Read More
2009-01-20 15:02
Sorry for the long silence. That flu is awful and it doesn't end. Poor doctors don't know what to do :). I've spent more time with them in January than in the previous five years, I think… Read More
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