Since a Russian court in January sent his older brother, environmental activist Fail Alsynov, to prison for four years, Idel ...

This slick but shallow adaptation of Gogol’s classic 1836 satire takes a comedy grounded in the very real corruption of ...

Considered the most fashionable department store in modern Moscow TsUM Tsentralny Universalny Magazin was also the first ...

Discover the exciting lineup for SOUTH COAST REPERTORY's 2024-25 Season, featuring three world premieres: JOAN by Daniel ...

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Unfortunately for Indika, that world is a twisted, surrealist interpretation of Tsarist Russia. It's not long before the mission is quite literally derailed by a man named Ilya. Also Read: ‘Interview ...

This princely family was the richest in Russia. Their fortune was almost more than that of the emperor himself, owning fabulous palaces in St. Petersburg and beyond. The Yusupovs came from the ...

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The work of the Narodnaya Volya assassins put an end to reform from above for a generation. In the 1880s and 90s, the Tsarist ...

St Petersburg was a powerful player at the European chessboard prior to 1914. The Imperial Russian Army had entered Paris to bring down Napoleon Bonaparte a hundred years earlier and the tsars of ...

After Lithuania first gained independence, a large number of emigrants from Tsarist Russia ended up in Kaunas. The main Orthodox temple of Kaunas, the Archangel Church, was handed over to Catholics, ...