If you ask me, the process of learning a language is never easy. Foreign vocabulary and grammatical structures do not just fly into your brain during sleep. However, I am ...
Last weekend I decided to visit one of the oldest grocery markets of St.Petersburg: Sennoy market / Сенной рынок (Sennoy rynok). It is located centrally at Moskovsky ...
In January 2016, the BBC premiered one of its most ambitious and long-awaited literary adaptations: War and Peace. The Russian classic was brought to life by the British ...
Reading in Russian: Where to Start
In today’s classes, the topic of reading in Russian came up. Most teachers would agree that reading is the best way to consolidate the ...
Gogol's House
To say that Russia has a rich literary history would be an understatement. Russia has produced some of the greatest writers of all time, whose distinctive ...
Russian poetry is famous all over the world for its great number of talented writers. Within the best renowned we can find the names of: Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Leo Tolstoj, ...
Nikolai Gogol's stories continue to captivate readers in Russia and around the world. In St. Petersburg, Gogol's legacy has provided the inspiration for a restaurant and a ...
Алые паруса is the biggest and most famous White Nights Festival event in St Petersburg and offers spectacular fireworks, numerous concerts and a massive water show, all to ...
Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin was born on the 6th of June in 1799 and is considered by many as the greatest Russian poet ever, and the founder of modern Russian ...
The Writings of Vladimir Nabokov: About His Life and Work
Vladimir Nabokov ( 22/04/1899 2/07/1977) is a famous Russian and American writer. He was born in St. Petersburg in ...
Russia has a long tradition of fairy tales and fables. Krylov is the most famous writer of fables, and he is considered the Russian La Fontaine. On the other hand, ...
If you are curious about Russian literature and want to test your knowledge of Russian, we suggest you to see a performance of Bulgakov’s masterpiece, “The Master and ...
