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5 reasons for Caucasian longevity (PHOTOS)
5 books that supported Russians during World War II
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Nobel Laureate Mo Yan on Russia & Russian Literature
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What did the ‘Chumaks’ (aka traders) do in Russia?
Why would Leo Tolstoy often pray to his late mother?
What omens did Alexander Pushkin fear?
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Why was Alexander I's older sister taught… Russian?
What's going on in this painting by Ilya Repin?
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How the Egyptians became characters in Russian folklore
5 famous people of the Russian Empire born out of wedlock (PICS)
5 Russian novels that took the longest to write
Why did Catherine the Great decide to… educate women?
5 major works by Mikhail Bulgakov
5 facts about Alexander Nevsky (PICS)
How Pyotr Tchaikovsky opened Carnegie Hall
Why were books in short supply in the USSR?
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Who are candidates of sciences & doctors of sciences in Russia?
How did Russian & Soviet writers imagine the FUTURE? (PICS)
What does the expression “write from the wheel” mean?
What did a FILER do in Tsarist Russia?
Who is the MAIN monster in Russian fairy tales?
5 serf artists who became stars in Tsarist Russia (PICS)
How a Russian prince lost his WIFE in a card game
How Nikolai Sklifosovsky became the founder of modern surgery
Why is MONEY the real protagonist in Mikhail Bulgakov's novel ‘The Master and Margarita’?
5 incredible stories from the life of Nikolai Gogol, possibly invented by himself
How Russian writers invented serialized stories long before the advent of TV
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How a Russian artist invented a new muse for Apollo (PHOTO)
Why did Joseph Stalin call Russian writers?
Why Pushkin left his wife after their wedding night
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5 groups of co-authors in Russian literature
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