Every year on March 8th Russian women become the center of attention. This day is reserved for Russian men to pamper their wife, girlfriend, mother, sisters and favorite ...
Today marks the 71st Anniversary of the beginning of the Russian-Japanese war. The invasion liberated Manchuria, and Mongolia from the control of Imperial Japan. It proved to ...
In Borodino, a small town located 150km away from Moscow, took place on the 7th of September 1812 a decisive battle of the Russian Patriotic war ( known by the French as ...
108 years ago today, one of the world’s greatest authors rejected the Nobel Prize: Leo Tolstoy!
When the first Nobel Prize winner, the French poet Rene Sully-Prudhomme, ...
Cyclists! You may not be aware of this, but you have a peasant by the name of ‘Efim Artamonov’ to thank for your preferred mode of transport. On September 15th, 1801, the ...
September 5th – Do you know what day it is? Here’s a hint: if you have facial hair, you might just be glad that you’re living in 2014, and not 1698.
On this day in 1698 ...
On the 15th of August in 1893, 121 years ago, one of the largest museums of the world was opened to the public: The State Tretyakov Gallery (Государственная Третьяковская ...
On the 7th of August in 1803, Ivan Kruzenstern led the first Russian round-the-world expedition.
Ivan Kruzenstern was a Baltic-German admiral and explorer. In 1787, he ...
