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How Leo Tolstoy lost his entire HOME playing cards
The origin of the ‘Magic Tablecloth’
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Where did the invisibility cap come from?
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Who is ‘Viy’ in Russian literature? (PICS)
3 Types of Evil Spirits in Russian Literature
5 POPULAR Russian science fiction writers
Leo Tolstoy & his love for… sports! (PHOTOS)
‘Russian Fairy tales’ by Vladimir Dahl
The 5 MAIN madmen of Russian literature (PICS)
3 Russian fairy tales that were BANNED from publication
Lost in translation: How Russians translate from English
10 Western Works That Have Become… classics in Russia
How Leo Tolstoy literally changed the world
5 Russian writers who passionately loved… hunting!
Why is Viktor Pelevin Russia’s MAIN writer today?
How Fyodor Dostoevsky ran the first Russian ‘BLOG’
Did Leo Tolstoy copy ‘Anna Karenina’ from Flaubert's novel?
5 works by Russian writers about foreign geniuses
5 reasons to read Ivan Turgenev's ‘Sketches of a Hunter’
The TOP 10 essential Russian novels… picked by AI!
How Leo Tolstoy resettled the Doukhobors in Canada
Why are Arkady & Boris Strugatsky the USSR’s main science fiction writers?
5 most QUOTED works of Russian literature
5 Russian cities named after famous writers (PHOTOS)
5 reasons to read Mikhail Bulgakov’s ‘Heart of a Dog’
8 main places in Leo Tolstoy's life (PHOTOS)
4 Russian classic writers who wrote in FOREIGN languages
3 novels about DINOSAURS by classic Russian writers
5 museums dedicated to Russian writers outside of Russia
5 MAJOR love triangles in Russian literature
How a Moscow SKYSCRAPER became writer Lermontov's ‘home’
5 most PRODUCTIVE Russian writers
What Russian classic writers thought about FISHING
British slavist reveals the SECRET life of Anton Chekhov
How Russian culture changed China
Who did Russian classic writers consider the main graphomaniac?
How Leo Tolstoy was almost mauled by a female bear
How a Soviet pensioner forged historical artifacts
Did Nabokov find Russian ‘TOSKA’ in the English language?
Why does every Russian fairy tale begin with trouble?
How Voltaire & Diderot made money from a Russian empress
Why is the legendary epic ‘The Tale of Igor's Campaign’ a ‘Russian Shakespeare’?
What were Soviet comic books about? (PICS)
Russian writers who wrote about Russia from abroad
How losing at billiards brought Leo Tolstoy back to literature
Who is Uncle Styopa? 5 facts about Soviet most famous policeman (PICS)
Why did Leo Tolstoy run away from home?
Rare PHOTOS of Mikhail Sholokhov, Soviet writer & Nobel Prize winner
Rare PHOTOS of Joseph Brodsky, Russian intelligentsia’s favorite poet
15 MOST famous quotes by Russian writers
Mikhail Sholokhov: 5 facts about the ‘And Quiet Flows The Don’ author & Nobel Prize winner
10 must-read Soviet books about World War II
5 MAIN 'Don Juans' of Russian literature (PICS)
Why literary scholars still explore Pushkin manuscripts
Pushkin House: A place where Russian literature lives
Denis Fonvizin: Russia’s most famous playwright of the 18th century
Was Alexander Pushkin actually black?
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