Prince Adam Jerzy Czartoryski was born in Poland, and helped rule Russia, for a time at least.

Why was so much manpower, money, and material expended on a project that flew in the face of the policy of “peaceful coexistence” that had been announced just five years earlier? It was classic Khrushchev.

On August 7, 1921, Alexander Blok, died in St. Petersburg. Widely considered the greatest poet of the Silver Age of Russian poetry.

Molly Gartland’s The Girl from the Hermitage follows the turns of fate over nearly a century of a single family in St. Petersburg, whose lives are forever altered by a portrait assignment.

On spy films, summits, and finding a way to live together.

For some 300 years, the residents of Gorodets, near Nizhny Novgorod, have been making a spicy cookie famous throughout the country, and perhaps the world.

In 1921, Russia was in a catastrophic state. Famine raged, and American aid proved crucial to the nation's survival.

In some other Wonderland, she may have remained Alice – but when a certain Sirin heard of her plight, his messy meddling left her convinced she was Anya.

Vladimir Pozner Jr., Russian-American journalist and television host, describes his path to disillusionment.

Are you a Moscow Maniac or a Petersburg Patrician? It's time to take a side!

A century-old wrecked icebreaker was just found north of Russia.

Russian tea isn't always what you might picture it to be... neither is it always really tea. Let's have a taste of some of the unique varieties of herbal tea found in Russia.