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10 loudest rebrandings in Russia
Why does Yemelyan Pugachev have two heads on this portrait?
How French artist Matisse ended up in Russia
How did the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God become the most popular in Russia?
Zaraisk: 5 reasons to visit the town with an ancient kremlin (PHOTOS)
What on Earth is that!?
How did a Russian diplomat become an envoy to the English court?
15 WEIRD ads from Tsarist Russia (PICS)
Why Russians used to add ‘-s’ at the end of words
10 masterpieces of contemporary Russian jewelry art (PHOTOS)
What foreign products were available in the USSR?
Why were prices in the USSR stamped directly on goods?
How Soviet people got a job
This woman survived the Gulag & DREW her harrowing experience (PICS)
What foreign goods could be bought in the USSR (PHOTOS)
Why was Russian actor Vasily Livanov awarded the Order of the British Empire?
10 facts about schools in the USSR
5 facts about Pskov-Caves Monastery, one of Russia’s most famous
What did Soviet people eat in a day?
Birch tree ‘letter’ with a death wish found in Russia
Dionisy’s frescoes: How Old Russia’s most famous iconographer painted a remote northern monastery
Did you know that, in Old Russia, people steamed in an oven?
WEIRD rides that were popular in the USSR (PHOTOS)
How tea was once counterfeited in Russia
Who were the ‘red priests’ & how did they appear in Soviet times?
3 most famous patriarchs of the Russian Orthodox Church
Who were ‘startsy’, the elders of the Russian Orthodox Church?
7 facts about the Kirillo-Belozersky Monastery, the largest in Russia (PHOTOS)
The Russian Empire’s nationalities depicted in porcelain sculptures (PHOTOS)
5 things to do at the NEW Museum of Naval Glory in Kronstadt (PHOTO)
What people used as bribes in Tsarist Russia
Cobalt net: How the most recognizable design of Russian porcelain was created
11 masterpieces of Soviet architecture abroad (PHOTO)
What did eyewitnesses say about the mysterious Tunguska meteorite?
What did street vendors look like in the Russian Empire? (PICS)
Why was a famous chemist nicknamed the ‘luminous monk’?
What happened to Leo Tolstoy’s family after the 1917 Revolution
What kind of posters did Moscow greet foreigners at the 1980 Olympics?
Why did some in the USSR once live in... barrels!?
5 facts about the Samara Metro (PHOTOS)
How has the fashion for women's hats changed in Russia? (PHOTOS)
When did labor vacations appear in Russia?
Why was Anton Chekhov's life incredibly boring?
Why was Tolstoy kicked out of the Russian Orthodox Church?
The world's only female necropolis is in the Moscow Kremlin
10 RARE & lesser-known PHOTOS of Lenin’s wife
How Russia began to venerate its own image of the Mother of God
What is so unique about the Russian icon of Christ with Golden Hair?
Which ladies' handbags were popular in the USSR? (PHOTOS)
Women's dress code at the tsar's court: dresses in Russian style (PICS)
What do Russians celebrate on June 12?
Did you know that Baron Munchausen was a real person and worked in Russia?
Was ‘Morning in a Pine Forest’ really painted by Shishkin?
The most BEAUTIFUL tiaras of Russian empresses (PHOTOS)
Why did Nicholas I financially support Pushkin's family after his death?
Why was the world's first subway station on a bridge closed for 19 years?
In a coffin & with champagne: How a Simbirsk nobleman shocked the city
What happened to those whom Peter I sent to study abroad?
How & why did Japanese actress Yoshiko Okada escape to the USSR for the rest of her life?
Did you know that the Moscow Kremlin was once broken up into apartments?
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