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Russian history
Why did a Russian aristocrat defend the UK from the Nazis? (VIDEO)
How did the Russian Trans-Siberian Railway end up in… Paris?
How a 15th-century fresco was reassembled from construction debris
How puppet theaters appeared in Russia
Who was the FIRST Russian female polar explorer?
Did Stalin really want to DRAIN the Caspian Sea? (VIDEO)
Why were these Orthodox ‘Protestants’ the wealthiest people in the Russian Empire?
5 Russian rulers who ‘reshaped’ their people
From ‘Cod-Eaters’ to ‘Salty Ears’: 7 FUNNY nicknames of Russian citizens
What did the newspaper society chronicle write about in Tsarist Russia?
How millions of Soviet viewers were ‘healed’ in front of their TV screens
Why did the Soviets make duvet covers with a hole in the middle?
Why did Russian peasants wear BELTS in the bathhouse?
Why did the Brits want Crimea for a PENAL colony? (VIDEO)
Why did the Holy Synod BAN these icons?
One of the deepest trenches in the Atlantic is named after Sergei Vavilov. Why?
This Soviet female pilot’s record stood unbroken for 38 years
How did Monomakh's Cap come into being? (VIDEO)
5 facts about Alexandra Potanina, the first Russian female explorer of Central Asia
Was Peter the Great replaced by an IMPOSTER!? (VIDEO)
This designer furnished living rooms across the USSR
What is going on in this painting by Grigory Ugryumov?
Why did Ivan the Terrible’s sons become saints?
What eating out was like in the Russian Empire
How the ‘golden youth’ of Tsarist Russia pulled off WILD antics
Why did this Soviet scientist want to BLOW UP the Moon? (VIDEO)
Should the Orthodox Church be wealthy or poor?
The time Churchill got knocked out by a Soviet officer! (VIDEO)
How was the Transpolar Mainline built? (VIDEO)
How the FIRST ever flight suit was invented in the USSR
This cossack remained the Russian empress’ bodyguard even after the revolution
How they PARTIED in Moscow before the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution
Why did people in old Russia put FROGS in milk!?
Why did Russians sleep on... stoves!? (VIDEO)
How the first amusement park appeared in Tsarist Russia
10 Russian products with a history spanning more than 100 years (PHOTOS)
Why did Russia send Orthodox icons to German poet Goethe?
Why is Moscow a city of rings? (PHOTOS)
Why did Nicholas II's wife try to save money on everything?
How did the first major merchants’ guild form in Russia?
How a Russian surgeon turned frozen bodies into the first 3D human atlas
The Demidovs: The richest industrialists of the Russian Empire
Why did the Italians invade the USSR alongside Hitler? (VIDEO)
Why is Shlisselburg Fortress known as the ‘Russian Bastille’? (PHOTOS)
5 fears Russian tsars had
Pre-revolutionary Russia's racers – what were they like? (VIDEO)
The ‘live Internet’ of Rus' – what do wanderers have to do with it? (VIDEO)
How Western musicians performed in the USSR (PHOTOS)
Why were guests greeted with bread and salt in Rus'? (VIDEO)
A 15th-century treasure worth $6 million was recently discovered in Kolomna
Why were cosmonauts issued WEAPONS for their space flights?
How the Soviet Union hooked Europe on... GAS (VIDEO)
How people spent summer in the Russian Empire (PHOTOS)
Relics of Saint Dmitry Donskoy found in the Moscow Kremlin (PHOTOS)
What do the colors of the Russian flag stand for? (VIDEO)
This Soviet sailor attended the coronations of TWO British monarchs
How the nobility feasted in the Russian Empire
Why do Iranians consider the samovar their own?
How Peter the Great reformed the Russian alphabet
This Russian peasant slept for 22 years! (VIDEO)
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