In December 1866, a lively journalist named Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain’s real name) saw an advertisement in a newspaper…
Osip Mandelstam: а Voice Silenced by the Age
Scholars, being scholars, have crunched some numbers. They have calculated that the words “time” and “century” appear in Osip Mandelstam’s…
We cannot do without space
A silver rocket soars into the sky, as though breaking free from the stone pedestal beneath it. Along its base…
“I would like to repay my debt to Russia”
Sven, call sign ‘Diplomat’, looks every bit the biker: bandana, a stud earring, colourful tattoos. Yet the members of the…
The Makovskys: Famous and Forgotten
The artist began by laying cool green brushstrokes onto the canvas. Then carefully added pinkish and peach tones over them.…
Why did American classic writer Theodore Dreiser go to the USSR?
It turns out, a better observer of the communist experiment could hardly have been found. The young Soviet state also…
The “Happy House” in Moscow
On Bolshaya Gruzinskaya Street, across from the Moscow Zoo, in the courtyard of the Ministry of Natural Resources, stands an…
The Word and Deed of Musa Jalil
For his exceptional fortitude and courage, Musa Jalil (born Musa Mustafovich Zalilov) was posthumously awarded the title of Hero of…
The White House and Its Inhabitants
This house was built in a newly planted southern garden on the far outskirts of the resort town of Yalta.…
Operation Children
The largest child rescue operation of the Great Patriotic War was led by a 24-year-old schoolteacher. In the summer of…
