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Russian history
Who was Russia’s only king?
Did you know? The Russian double-headed eagle is over 500 years old!
How an American writer lived with Tolstoy & traveled with vagabonds in Russia
The Seven Bridges of Königsberg: Can you solve this ancient math riddle?
Love triangles of Russian writers
Service à la russe: The way you eat was invented by the Russians!
T-34, the best Soviet tank of WWII (VIDEO)
5 strange professions of pre-revolutionary Russia
What’s going on in the painting ‘Dmitry Donskoy on the Kulikovo Field’ by Vasily Sazonov?
How the first railroad appeared in Russia
How Stalin's youngest son survived WWII (VIDEO)
Why did Russians start calling St. Petersburg ‘Piter’?
Why was a ‘DVORNIK’ an important figure in Tsarist Russia?
Why did Leo Tolstoy run away from home?
7 facts about Novodevichy, Moscow’s main monastery
Why Russia celebrates the ‘Day of Slavic Writing and Culture’ on May 24
What is going on in the historical painting by Pavel Chistyakov?
Where did the Amber Room go? (VIDEO)
How a Soviet geologist hunted for BIGFOOT in the Far North
What Russia was like in 1995 (PHOTOS)
How is the double-headed eagle from the Russian coat of arms different from the others?
How Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich came up with the first traffic rules
3 reasons to visit the ‘Heroes of Stalingrad Battle’ memorial
Why is Victory Day so important for Russians? (VIDEO)
How Empress Maria Feodorovna arranged colorful fancy-dress balls (PICS)
Why was Archpriest Avvakum burned alive?
What Soviet Russia was like in 1985 (PHOTOS)
25 PHOTOS of Tsar Nicholas II you've never seen before
Why was ‘Saltychikha’ considered to be Russia’s CRUELEST woman?
What Soviet Russia was like in 1975 (PHOTOS)
How did female duels differ from male ones? (VIDEO)
What Soviet Russia was like in 1965 (PHOTOS)
Why was Kozelsk called ‘The evil city’?
What Soviet Russia was like in 1955 (PHOTOS)
How the French perfumed all of Tsarist Russia
For many years, there was a week-long ‘mushroom madness’ in Moscow. Why?
How Russian troops entered Paris in 1814 (VIDEO)
What Soviet Russia was like in 1945 (PHOTOS)
10 ICONIC Russian magazines of the 1990s
How 'Kinder Surprise' was invented in Russia more than 100 years ago! Wait, what?
What Soviet Russia was like in 1935 (PHOTOS)
How did the most criminal cities of the USSR fight crime? (VIDEO)
Why did Russians literally sleep on stoves? (VIDEO)
10 stories that Russian Imperial plates tell (PHOTOS)
How the ‘Ready for Labor & Defense’ Complex Appeared in the USSR (PICS)
What Russia was like in 1915 (PHOTOS)
When were Russian women first allowed to vote in an election? (VIDEO)
3 MAIN discoveries by Russian navigator Semyon Dezhnev
Electricity was brought to the homes in Tsarist Russia by... a fairy! How come? (VIDEO)
Was Rasputin really a lover of the Russian 'queen'? (VIDEO)
How Hungarian Eugen Varga became the USSR’s main economist
Why were exactly 6 ares allocated for dachas in the USSR?
Propaganda posters of the early Soviet Moscow (PICS)
The USSR's most popular magazine & how it bypassed censorship
Why is Russia so big?
What is the puzzling story behind Russia’s national anthem?
Why is the double-headed eagle Russia’s national symbol?
What the colors of the Russian flag mean
How did Russia get its flag?
Moscow’s OLDEST tram stop (PHOTOS)
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