Freemasonry came to Russia in 1731 when Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of England Lord Lowell appointed Captain John Phillips Grand Master of Russia, who subsequently preached among a small circle of ...

Vadim Skryabin/TASS Driving a car in Yakutia, Taymyr or Chukotka is not easy, but ingenious locals in these regions have managed to adapt their vehicles to even the most severe weather. We have ...

Drivers in the coldest regions make blankets for their car engines, and some even keep the motor running from autumn until spring! In many Russian regions harsh winters are the norm – people and their ...

To describe the Soviet penal system, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, who survived eight years of Gulag incarceration, wrote a massive book titled ‘Archipelago Gulag’ after collecting hundreds of memoirs of ...

Jeff Bezos is now the richest person in history. How does the fortune of the last Tsar compare to the owner of Amazon.com? Since the Russian Orthodox Church canonized Nicholas II, he can also be named ...

All of the uprisings during the 20th century can get confusing, so here’s a short history for those who want to cut straight to the chase. Even for Russian historians, the revolution saga of the early ...

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. In the beginning ...

Global Look Press, Legion Media, Public domain The Bolsheviks oppressed the Orthodox Church after seizing power in Russia – but Stalin, despite all his ruthlessness, changed things for better in this ...

One of the most controversial figures in Soviet history, Joseph Stalin, is praised by some and hated by others. He was the leader of the nation that turned the tide against the Nazis, and at the same ...

The disclosure of the files offered a unique insight into one of the most secretive organizations of the Cold War era. In the spring of 1992, a Russian man knocked on the doors of the UK Embassy in ...

If you have ever been to Moscow, there is a pretty good chance that you’ve walked the streets of “Kitai-gorod” (Китай-город), one of the oldest parts of the city, a few minutes’ walk from the Kremlin ...

From the tiny apartment that he lived in during the 1990s to Stalin’s dacha and Romanov palaces, the leader of the largest country on Earth has quite a few places to work and relax in. This is the ...