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What is going on in the painting ‘Protodeacon proclaiming longevity at a merchant's name day’ by Nikolai Nevrev?

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9 foreign actors who can be seen in Russian cinema (PHOTOS)

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Who did Russian classic writers consider the main graphomaniac?

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What’s going on in the painting ‘At the Fortress Wall. Let Them Enter’?

Are Pushkin & Dumas really the same person? (VIDEO)

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15 PAINTINGS by Russian artists about fairs (PICS)

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Who is a ‘wedding general’ & why is he needed?

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What wines did the heroes of Russian literature drink?

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What’s going on in the painting ‘Suvorov Crossing the Alps in 1799’?

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Yura Borisov to play a Russian poet (again!)

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Haymaking in the paintings of Russian artists

State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg

What’s going on in the painting ‘Father-in-law’ by Vladimir Makovsky?

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Did Nabokov find Russian ‘TOSKA’ in the English language?

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Your complete guide to ALL State Hermitage Museum buildings & branches

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Why does every Russian fairy tale begin with trouble?

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How summer holidays were depicted by Russian artists (PICS)

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What’s going on in the painting ‘Defenders of the Brest Fortress’?

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Why Malevich’s ‘Black Square’ is REALLY important

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Why is the legendary epic ‘The Tale of Igor's Campaign’ a ‘Russian Shakespeare’?

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What were Soviet comic books about? (PICS)

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Top 5 ART academies in Russia

A story without words (VIDEO)

Rostov Kremlin

Russian folk wedding charms, festive sundresses & ancient kokoshniks go on display in Rostov Veliky

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What's inside the most BEAUTIFUL house in old Moscow? (PHOTOS)

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8 Soviet movies about time travel that you can watch FREE ONLINE

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Why is Russia considered the home of mermaids?

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Moscow hosts the annual 'Red Square' book fest! (PHOTOS)

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5 reasons to read Pushkin's poems in Russian

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What did Russian classic writers say about SUMMER?

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Who is Uncle Styopa? 5 facts about Soviet most famous policeman (PICS)

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What’s going on in the painting ‘Dmitry Donskoy on the Kulikovo Field’ by Vasily Sazonov?

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10 most FAMOUS book illustrations by Soviet artist May Miturich (PICS)

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Why did Leo Tolstoy run away from home?

Pavel Kuzmichev

7 facts about Novodevichy, Moscow’s main monastery

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10 hunks of Soviet cinema (PHOTOS)

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Rare PHOTOS of Mikhail Sholokhov, Soviet writer & Nobel Prize winner

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Rare PHOTOS of Joseph Brodsky, Russian intelligentsia’s favorite poet

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Why Russia celebrates the ‘Day of Slavic Writing and Culture’ on May 24

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Russia used to have its own 'demonic possession' epidemic (VIDEO)

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What is going on in the historical painting by Pavel Chistyakov?

Gateway to Russia (photo: Alexander Konkov/TASS; ErmakovaElena/Getty Images; Vladimir Vyatkin/Sputnik)

How choreographer Yury Grigorovich became a symbol of the Bolshoi Theater

Yasnaya Polyana Estate Museum

How did Leo Tolstoy look for his love?

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5 songs by Andrei Eshpai the entire USSR sang

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15 MOST famous quotes by Russian writers

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10 Russian movies that won awards at Cannes

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Mikhail Sholokhov: 5 facts about the ‘And Quiet Flows The Don’ author & Nobel Prize winner

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10 must-read Soviet books about World War II

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How a French director helped the movie ‘The Cranes Are Flying’ get to Cannes

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How Empress Maria Feodorovna arranged colorful fancy-dress balls (PICS)

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5 MAIN 'Don Juans' of Russian literature (PICS)

Boris Kustodiev: An artist who portraited the merchant era of Russia

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4 facts about the unique Triumphal Arch in Moscow

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Mikhail Zemtsov: The first certified Russian architect

Оренбургский областной музей изобразительных искусств

10 vivid examples of Russian impressionism (PICS)

Why do Russian filmmakers break plates on set? (VIDEO)

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Your complete guide to all buildings of the State Russian Museum in St. Petersburg

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What is happening in the painting ‘Abolition of the Novgorod Veche’ by Klavdiy Lebedev?

Anna Sorokina

An onion, a helmet, a sphere - what do they have in common? Russian churches! (VIDEO)

Gateway to Russia (Photo: Orest Kiprensky/Tretyakov Gallery; Archive photo; Sergey Soloviev/Mosfilm, 1972)

Why literary scholars still explore Pushkin manuscripts

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5 Soviet fairy tales directed by Alexander Ptushko, which you can watch ONLINE