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Semyonkovo: traditional architecture of the Vologda region

May 12, 2012 William Brumfield
Vologda region has many towns and villages with rich traditions of vernacular architecture associated with a free peasantry. To preserve and propagate this heritage, the Semyonkovo open-air museum was opened in 1992

Russia celebrates Victory Day

May 9, 2012 RIA Novosti, The Moscow Times
Russia held a parade in Red Square to mark the 67th anniversary of the Soviet victory over Nazi Germany in the 1941-45 Great Patriotic War

Why we remember the victory

May 8, 2012 Denis Maltsev
The end of the Great Patriotic War remains an important day to celebrate for Russians

Victory Day on both sides of the Atlantic

May 8, 2012 Eugene Ivanov
A couple of hours for Victory Day is not a high price to pay for reminding ourselves that the history of mankind doesn’t split along national borders or generational lines

The Bolshoi Theater in WWII: The show must go on

May 8, 2012 Daria Gonzales
Although Moscow was bombed during the World War II, it didn’t prevent the Bolshoi Theater’s actors and actresses from performing on the stage

Retired soldier builds life-size models of World War II tanks

May 7, 2012 Andrei Shapran
A retired military man in the Siberian village of Bolshoi Oyesh has set up a workshop that builds life-size moving models of World War II-era tanks and armored vehicles

What Russians think about Stalin

May 4, 2012 Vladimir Ruvinsky
In the West, Stalin is remembered for the terror he inflicted on his own people, while at home the collective memory is more complex

Komsomolsk: Taiga to high tech

April 27, 2012 William Brumfield
Founded 80 years ago, Komsomolsk-on-Amur is one of those towns whose very existence begs the question: Why is it here at all?

Off the beaten track: hidden Russia revealed

April 25, 2012 Roger Williams
A major investment program is helping to transform Russia’s more remote regions into world-class tourist destinations

The way we were: Communism revisited

April 24, 2012 Daria Gonzales
Statues, buildings and smaller mementoes of the recent past have been preserved as a reminder of Communist times

Russia-UK: Why culture vultures can soar above political problems

April 24, 2012 Alexander Yakovenko
The new office of the Russian Federal Agency for Humanitarian Co-operation, opened in London, is expected to promote the Russian culture in Great Britain and strengthen Russian-British ties

Stalin notebooks: Internet meme, or provocation?

April 24, 2012 Larisa Khudikova, Vesti.ru
School notebooks depicting Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin touched off a public scandal

Russia’s 12 oldest ancient monuments

April 20, 2012 Dmitry Kikot
In this latest installment of the Russian Dozen, RBTH explores six monuments from the time when Russia was inhabited by early primitive peoples, and six ancient Christian monuments created by the ancestors of the Russians

Soviet literature’s passport from Ann Arbor to the world

April 13, 2012 John 
Freedman, The Moscow Times
Carl R. Proffer, an American prominent publisher, started printing Soviet and Russian literature at home and selling it by mail after he had founded Ardis Publishers in the early 1970s

The Golitsyn Church at Dubrovitsy: A Passion for Divine art

April 13, 2012 William Brumfield
Church at Dubrovitsy represents at once an extreme of Muscovite ornamentalism and the quickening pace of Westernization that would turn Russian architecture from Byzantium to Rome

Russian proposed a Titanic love story

April 13, 2012 Ilya Stulov
Anatoly Sagalevich has visited the wreck of the Titanic more than 50 times. On a trip with James Cameron, he suggested the director make a great love story

Alexander Herzen: A man of the era of awakening

April 11, 2012 Alexandra Guzeva
This year, Russia celebrates the 200th birthday of writer and political thinker Alexander Herzen. Are his dissident views still relevant given the current state of Russian politics?

A Russian who discovered the Titanic

April 5, 2012 Diana Laarz
April 15 marks the 100th anniversary of the Titanic sinking. Today the wreckage is being explored by Russian deep-sea researchers

Literary Russian London

March 31, 2012 Phoebe Taplin
From Herzen’s house to Lenin’s library, London is full of places associated with Russian writers and thinkers

Pashkov House: Home to rare books

March 28, 2012 Alexandra Guzeva
The Russian State Library holdings take up an entire block in Moscow, accommodating tremendous collections of books, which are currently being digitized. The oldest building in the complex – the Pashkov House – is teeming with legends
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