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Russian history
Did you know that Tsar Ivan the Terrible was a writer?
7 facts about Empress Anna Ioannovna (PICS)
What did Arabs do under the Russian emperors?
What country built the first embassy in Moscow? (VIDEO)
How Mozart almost came to Russia
How a new theater was opened during the Siege of Leningrad
How the children of Russian Emperors got up to mischief
4 Orthodox Saints who students in the Russian Empire prayed to (PICS)
Where in Russia did monarchs LOVE to travel?
Spelled as it sounds? How a Russian language reform failed in the USSR
'Tsarist News': Peter I chops off beards! (VIDEO)
Russian monarchs who traveled Europe (PICS)
5 INDOOR games of Russian nobility (PICS)
Why didn't Vladimir Makovsky exhibit this painting? (PICS)
Was Peter I replaced in Europe? (VIDEO)
How ‘Komsomol Christmas’ was celebrated in the USSR (PHOTOS)
These items were given to Russia by a British Duchess
How was New Year's Eve celebrated under the Russian empresses?
The story behind ‘Ded Moroz’, Russia’s main winter wizard (PICS)
Who was the creator of the ‘Russian’ salad?
How to organize a children's New Year’s tree according to the SOVIET GOST standard (PHOTOS)
How the first Moscow Kremlin New Year’s tree was staged (PHOTOS)
Why is the ‘sbiten’ maker considered a street symbol of Tsarist Russia?
Is Russian scientist Lomonosov actually the son of Peter I? (VIDEO)
Who said “there's no order in our vast land” and why?
How Catherine the Great learned the Russian language
How an English adventurer duchess ended up at the court of Catherine the Great
How Canada's Prime Minister once visited Soviet Norilsk
How did a piece of Italy end up near Russia’s Nizhny Tagil?
How a cockroach accidentally brought a new… baked good to Moscow!
How Emperor Paul I challenged ALL European monarchs to a duel
Why did every Russian girl dream of working as a ‘lady-in-waiting’?
Solovetsky Islands: A journey into Russian history (PHOTOS)
Alexander Radishchev: The Russian writer who suffered most for his work
8 facts about the ‘king of reporters’ of Tsarist Russia (PICS)
How Mayakovsky brought a car from Paris for Lilya Brik (PHOTOS)
The dog that survived the execution of the royal family (VIDEO)
How tall were Russian rulers? (INFOGRAPHIC)
How a female Prussian lancer became a tavern owner… in Russia (PICS)
‘Ofeni’: The traveling salesmen of Tsarist Russia who invented criminal jargon
How did a Russian bell end up in… British captivity? (PICS)
4 legendary fashion designers who visited the USSR (PHOTOS)
How writer Mikhail Prishvin built the first Soviet motorhome (PHOTOS)
Which Russian empress did Andersen read his fairy tales to?
How a serf became the main brewer of the Russian Empire
Did Alexander Nevsky ever utter the phrase about the fate of those who come to us with the sword?
Who were the ‘raeshniks’ & why were they Tsarist Russia’s first ‘TV’?
Laurence from France: “I fell in love with Ivan the Terrible when I was a schoolgirl”
6 facts about the ‘Krasny Kabachok’, an inn frequented by tsars & poets (PICS)
How ‘matchmakers’ became the main marriage broker in merchant Russia
The first women heroes of the Soviet Union (PHOTOS)
How Russian scientist Ivan Michurin changed the laws of nature
How did Russia say goodbye to Peter the Great? (VIDEO)
Leo Tolstoy & his love for… sports! (PHOTOS)
How were PINEAPPLES grown in 18th-century Russia?
How French writer Alexandre Dumas discovered Russian cuisine
Why were chimney sweeps both feared & valued in Tsarist Russia?
Why did Russians riot because of… potatoes? (VIDEO)
No, Moscow was NOT built on seven hills! (VIDEO)
5 facts about the ‘Slavic Bazaar’ – Moscow's FIRST restaurant (PHOTOS)
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