He lists the disparate thoughts running through his head: a green cake he once ate in Naples, the fish pie he must take out of the freezer, a line from Mayakovsky, digging in The Great Escape and ...
You've seen how brothers-in-arms dig mass graves for the brotherly people," Kamardin declaimed near the statue of Soviet poet Vladimir Mayakovsky. In a statement from jail, Kamardin said poetry ...
The wife of a Russian poet jailed for seven years for reciting anti-war verses said she was afraid he could be killed in prison after he was sexually assaulted with a dumbbell during his arrest ...
The first planetarium in Russia was designed by architects Mikhail Barshch and Mikhail Sinyavsky in the constructivist style. It became the 13th in the world: most planetariums at that time were ...
Espionage novelist Littell (The Company) tries his hand at historical fiction in this charming reimagining of the 10 weeks Leon Trotsky spent in the Bronx. From the moment the exiled Trotsky, his ...
Charismatic and extraordinary talented theater actors always surprise the audience with wonderful performances. Many works of Russian literary figures such as Tolstoy, Pushkin, Chekov, Gogol, ...