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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)
5 favorite books of Joseph Stalin
What's going on in this painting by Nikolai Koshelev?
Why are there graves… in Moscow parks?
Who did the ‘kisser’ kiss?
Why did Patriarch Nikon gouge out the eyes of icons?
How Joseph Stalin would spend his summer vacations (PHOTOS)
The first Russian travelogue: Afanasy Nikitin's ‘A Journey Beyond the Three Seas’
How Red Square once hosted a soccer match for Stalin
Martyrs of Alapayevsk: How Nicholas II's relatives were executed
The Soviets changed a giant construction project because of THIS church
Why could only teenagers work as ‘foreytors’?
10 MYSTICAL places in Moscow (PHOTOS)
Which writers did Soviet leaders adore? (PHOTOS)
Who was the most family-oriented of the Russian emperors?
7 caps of Russian tsardom that have survived to this day (PHOTOS)
What languages were spoken in pre-revolutionary Russia?
Moscow has its own Chinatown, BUT it has nothing to do with China!
Why did the British intervene in the Russian Civil War? (VIDEO)
How did the romance between Leon Trotsky & Frida Kahlo end? (VIDEO)
Why were professional mourners valued in Old Russia?
What was folk medicine like in Old Russia?
How a Russian emperor became the Grand Master of the Order of Malta (VIDEO)
Is it true that 'Doctor Zhivago' was published by the... CIA? (VIDEO)
What languages were spoken in the Russian Empire?
The LARGEST family in Russian Empire had 87 kids! How? (VIDEO)
10 household items everyone in the USSR dreamed of
How Lyudmila Verbitskaya taught the whole world speaking Russian
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