In this issue

The Mari People * Russian Discovery of Antarctica * Raspberries and Forest Beasts * Living in Isolation * Language of Being a Guest and of Birds * The Semyonovsky Revolt * Sergei Bondarchuk * Chicks Rule the Screen * Creating Anna Karenina * Apple Fritters * Battle of the Ugra River

Readings

Chicks Rule the Screen Russian women shine in a fresh TV series

10+ mins

Russian Chronicles

An illustrated page from the Russian Chronicle, showing the Battle of the Ugra River.The “Battle” of the Ugra River

10+ mins

Life is just a bowl of…Raspberries?

MID-JULY CAME ON CHILLY AND WITH RAIN TO SPARE, BUT month’s end was suddenly dry and warm. That gave the wild raspberries, which usually ripened in early August, an unexpected influx of the mysteriously delicate juice that make them so very different from the fragrant but bland garden raspberries. So the gals, without so much as a word to each other, started making forays into the closest of the raspberry patches that in the past couple of years had run rampant over the felled areas of the forest. After the nearest mile or two had been picked clean, they put their heads together and started going in threes, in fives, because the forest doesn’t care for any tomfoolery.

6 mins

In Search of Terra Incognita

The risk one runs in exploring these unknown and Icy Seas is so very great, that I can be bold to say, that no man will ever venture farther than I have done and that the lands which may lie to the South will never be explored. ~ British Captain James Cook

10+ mins

LIFE IN ISOLATION

The universal quarantining and self-isolating due to COVID-19 has put millions of people in something of a predicament. Every day is the same as the one before, and sometimes we can’t even get together with our closest family members. But for a few, being solitary is a way of life. And so we decided to touch base with people in remote corners of Russia who, because of their jobs or the unique features of their culture, socialize with only a narrow circle of people, yet somehow never feel lonely.

10+ mins

Under Review

GOOD CITIZENS NEED NOT FEAR

6 mins

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