On the world cultural stage, it’s fair to say that both Russian and native Russian-speaking demographics are very well represented, though primarily on the platforms of ...
Much like literature and film, Russian theatre is extremely fertile ground for both research and writing, and so, in order to retain a sense of scope and ground my writing ...
Russian is widely accepted as being one of the hardest languages to learn, hence its invariable presence on lists of ‘the hardest languages to learn’. So when its revealed ...
Any lover of Russian literature will have undoubtedly come across the likes of Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy and Chekhov as it is these ‘fathers of the classics’ that Western readers ...
Any cinephiles out there will undoubtedly have consumed the majority of Hollywood’s output of the last 50 years or so. Some particularly voracious viewers might have ventured ...
Many novice visitors to Riga wrongly assume that, owing to the lack of familiar western European institutions (McDonalds and KFC excluded), finding good food here is simply ...
Russian literature in translation has permeated beyond the Carpathian mountains and into Europe, and subsequently, the rest of the English speaking world. Though this in ...
Inexorably, Russian literature is immensely broad, deeply convoluted and far from a transparent sub-genre for any non-native prospective reader. In this regard, Tolstoy is the ...
Anyone brave enough to study Russian, regardless of level, is likely to end up spending some of their time in Riga. After all, for practising real-world day-to-day spoken ...
Music is inherently intertwined with both language, and consequently, culture. It draws on the broad corpus of its chosen language and plays with the most complex of ...
Russian is, and has long been, one of, if not the most geographically prevalent languages on the planet. Russian as a language stretches from the freezing yet astoundingly ...
Всем привет дорогие читатели! My name is Patrick and I’m the new intern blogger at Liden and Denz, Riga. I’m a 3rd year student at the University of Oxford studying Russian ...
