Sample Articles

Thousands of subscribers to Russian Life love our 55-year-young magazine for its colorful feature articles, its independent tone and its amazing depth and breadth of coverage.

We think you will love Russian Life too. But don't take our word for it! Check out what readers themselves say. And, to get a sense of what our magazine is like before you subscribe, sample some of our articles, linked below.

Since text alone does not do Russian Life justice, we have uploaded and posted here several stories in Adobe Acrobat format. If you don't have Acrobat Reader, you can download it for free here.

Please note: in order to keep file sizes small, photos are reproduced at low resolution. The printing in our magazine is of course of the highest quality!

• Unusual Russian Imports, from Ural motorcycles to paintbrushes and seeds [10 pages • 752k]
• The Russian Izba [11 pages • 588k]
• A beautiful look at Moscow's Abramtsevo Estate [10 pages • 368k]
• Life with Mushrooms (Survival Russian column sample) [1 page • 332k]
• Russian Oxymorons (Survival Russian column sample) [1 page • 304k]
• A biography of Alexander Blok [11 pages • 456k]
• Russian in the Real World: How Studying Russian has helped some get jobs [7 pages • 396k]
• A biography of Sergei Eisenstein [6 pages • 312k]
• Potatoes and Russian history [4 pages • 288k]
• Russian San Francisco [5 pages • 192k]