Culture
Russian Life
The Museum Of Constructivism
Prospekt Zaborny 193 Zaporizhia, Ukraine Founded 2017
5 min |
January/February 2018
Russian Life
Museum Of The Shestidesyatniki
Olesia Honchara St, 33, Kiev Founded 2012.
4 min |
January/February 2018
Russian Life
Diaghilev Museum
Perm, ul. Sibirskaya 33 Founded 1987
5 min |
January/February 2018
Russian Life
Village Tales
A Quilt on the Door and Cats in the Fridge
5 min |
January/February 2018
Russian Life
Heir Abhorrent
ON FEBRUARY 3, 1718, Emperor Peter I issued a manifesto depriving Alexei, his son by his first wife, of the right to succeed him to the throne. Alexei, who had only just returned from Western Europe, where he had traveled in an attempt to avoid his father’s wrath, swore a solemn oath in Moscow’s Dormition Cathedral renouncing any claim to the throne in favor of his half brother Peter. One might have thought that the many years of conflict between father and son had finally been resolved, but in fact its most horrific episodes lay ahead.
2 min |
January/February 2018
Russian Life
Cooking With Sofia
ANYONE UNFAMILIAR WITH the life and oeuvre of Sofia Tolstaya, the wife of Lev Tolstoy, would be forgiven for basing their opinion of her on something like the movie The Last Station.
4 min |
September/October 2017
Russian Life
Romanov Toys
THINK HANDCRAFTED RUSSIAN TOYS, AND THE MATROSHKA IS usually what comes to mind.
7 min |
September/October 2017
Russian Life
17 Petersburg Places
Petersburg Places
10 min |
September/October 2017
Russian Life
Tracking The Ghost Of The Mountains
TIMUR PUSTOGACHEV STOPS AND STARES AT A MOUND OF small pebble shards. In the sea of rocks that is the Altai’s Chikhacheva Ridge, and just a half-tone darker than its immediate surroundings, this spot has for some reason caught his eye.
8 min |
March/April 2017
Russian Life
Pyramid & Paskha
ON THE OUTSKIRTS OF ST. PETERSBURG, NESTLED AMID TREES and snow, sits a church.
4 min |
March/April 2017
Russian Life
Moscow In The Middle
The view from Moscow’s newest passenger railroad is not picturesque.
8 min |
November/December 2016
Russian Life
Rasputin
“Ra-Ra- rasputin, lover of the Russian queen” went the refrain of a song by the group Boney M., Jamaican-born singers who were all the rage in my youth. This song reflected the popular allure of rumors about the depravity that gripped the final years of the House of Romanov, including that Tsaritsa Alexandra had been involved in illicit relations with a Siberian peasant, Grishka Rasputin, who was later killed by members of the Russian nobility. “Oh, those Russians!” as the song concludes.
7 min |