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Diaghilev Museum
Russian Life

Diaghilev Museum

Perm, ul. Sibirskaya 33 Founded 1987

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5 mins  |
January/February 2018
Village Tales
Russian Life

Village Tales

A Quilt on the Door and Cats in the Fridge

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5 mins  |
January/February 2018
Heir Abhorrent
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.

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2 mins  |
January/February 2018
Moscow In The Middle
Russian Life

Moscow In The Middle

The view from Moscow’s newest passenger railroad is not picturesque.

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8 mins  |
November/December 2016
Rasputin
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.

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7 mins  |
November/December 2016
Russian Life

Sea Hunt

On Russia’s maritime border with North Korea, rangers battle poachers – both Russian and Korean

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10 mins  |
January/February 2017
Village Tales
Russian Life

Village Tales

Sheshurino, Boy & Mishka Sparrowlegs

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4 mins  |
January/February 2017
Tracking The Ghost Of The Mountains
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.

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8 mins  |
March/April 2017
Pyramid & Paskha
Russian Life

Pyramid & Paskha

ON THE OUTSKIRTS OF ST. PETERSBURG, NESTLED AMID TREES and snow, sits a church.

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4 mins  |
March/April 2017
Cooking With Sofia
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.

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4 mins  |
September/October 2017
Romanov Toys
Russian Life

Romanov Toys

THINK HANDCRAFTED RUSSIAN TOYS, AND THE MATROSHKA IS usually what comes to mind.

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7 mins  |
September/October 2017
17 Petersburg Places
Russian Life

17 Petersburg Places

Petersburg Places

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10 mins  |
September/October 2017

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