Natalya Kochetkova

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How Voltaire & Diderot made money from a Russian empress

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Why Malevich’s ‘Black Square’ is REALLY important

Illustration by Sergei Kobuladze «Eclipse of the Sun» for the poem «The Tale of Igor's Campaign». - - - -Sverdlov/Sputnik / Sputnik

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

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Russian writers who wrote about Russia from abroad

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How losing at billiards brought Leo Tolstoy back to literature

Osip Brik, Lilya Brik and Vladimir Mayakovsky, Public domain

Love triangles of Russian writers

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Why is Russia considered the home of mermaids?

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5 reasons to read Pushkin's poems in Russian

Narkiz Bunin «Fishing», 1903 - private collection, public domain

Fishing through the eyes of Russian artists

5 strange professions of pre-revolutionary Russia

Natalya Nosova

What did a typical Soviet courtyard look like?

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How Orloff fighting chickens conquered the world

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Why was a ‘DVORNIK’ an important figure in Tsarist Russia?

Pavel Kuzmichev

7 facts about Novodevichy, Moscow’s main monastery

Kira Polyudova

Slavic letters that you no longer need to learn

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10 foreign phrases that every Russian knows and says

Kira Lisitskaya (Photo: Westend61/Getty Images)

8 proverbs about the Volga River

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9 children's yard games that were loved in the USSR

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5 songs by Andrei Eshpai the entire USSR sang