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Russian history
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)
How the British tried to keep the Russians out of India (VIDEO)
Which writers did Soviet leaders adore? (PHOTOS)
Who was the most family-oriented of the Russian emperors?
Why is Russia so BIG? (VIDEO)
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
An old Russian sport – ‘lapta’! (VIDEO)
What do the anthems of Russia & Great Britain have in common?
What did the ‘Chumaks’ (aka traders) do in Russia?
How American classic writer Mark Twain ended up in Russia & what surprised him
Why Pushkin is called the creator of the Russian language
Why is the King of Prussia BOWING to Moscow in this painting?
Why was Alexander I's older sister taught… Russian?
‘Worker and Kolkhoz Woman’: 5 facts about the legendary monument
Why did Alexander's beloved regiment revolt?
What happened to the Romanovs after the 1917 Revolution?
5 famous people of the Russian Empire born out of wedlock (PICS)
How Russians founded ballet in the U.S.
Why did Catherine the Great decide to… educate women?
7 legendary historical stones of Russia (PHOTOS)
5 facts about Alexander Nevsky (PICS)
This WWII pilot returned to the front after having both legs amputated
How the Moscow Kremlin's Spasskaya tower got its name
Yermolova Theater: The 100-year history of a major Moscow stage
How Pyotr Tchaikovsky opened Carnegie Hall
Why did American classic writer Theodore Dreiser go to the USSR?
‘KamAZ’ turns 50! The history of Russia's main truck (PHOTOS)
Why did Ivan the Terrible become a MONK before his death?
What did a FILER do in Tsarist Russia?
Russia once had a colony in the U.S. (VIDEO)
5 facts about the legendary ‘Sovremennik’ theater
What's going on in Konstantin Makovsky's painting, the LARGEST in Russian history?
What Russia was like in 1996 (PHOTOS)
How a Russian prince lost his WIFE in a card game
When was Russia's territory the largest? (VIDEO)
Did you know that Ivan the Terrible was also a… composer?
How Nikolai Sklifosovsky became the founder of modern surgery
What Soviet Russia was like in 1986 (PHOTOS)
Did the field marshal who defeated Napoleon wear an eye patch? (VIDEO)
What did a remonteur do in Tsarist Russia?
What Soviet Russia was like in 1976 (PHOTOS)
Who called for not disgracing the Russian land?
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