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Lev Ivanov / Sputnik

5 songs by Andrei Eshpai the entire USSR sang

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How to understand that a Russian man is in love with you?

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6 signs that a Russian girl is in LOVE with you

Alexander Zhadan/@biblikz

Russian programmer finds true love with ChatGPT

«Soviet Russia», 1987; Shevardnadze National Gallery of Georgia, Tbilisi

Poet Lermontov’s legendary love adventure in Georgia

10 ICONIC Soviet movies about love to watch ONLINE

Public domain

7 main women in the life of Russian poet Sergei Yesenin

Hermitage Museum; Tretiakov Gallery; Public domain

8 Russian tsars from the Romanov dynasty, who did not have mistresses

Friedenstein Castle/Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur; Christie’s

Russia’s Alexander II had a brief romance with young Queen Victoria!

Public domain

This Soviet poet kept ‘bringing’ flowers to his Parisian love – even posthumously

Юрий Абрамочкин; TASS

Soviet kisses: From innocent pioneers to political heavyweights (PHOTOS)

Anton Romanov

15 quotes from classic Russian authors about LOVE

Russia Beyond (Getty Images; Fyodor Rokotov/Tretyakov Gallery)

How Russian empresses secretly married their lovers

Archives Henri Matisse; Private collection

How a Siberian woman became Henri Matisse's muse