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The thousands of subscribers to Russian Life love our 50-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! Read 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!
- 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]
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Links to recent Russian Life Online articles...
Hermitage Cats
{A look at the cats that guard one of the world's great museums.}
Marriage Customs
{A Modern Russian Wedding: The Art of Getting Married. A look at Russian wedding traditions, past and present.}
Russian Genealogy
{A comprehensive guide, with loads of links, for getting started searching for your family roots.}
Does Russia Matter?
{Just how important is Russia in the world?}
Who Are the Russians?
{A look at the notion of "ethnic" Russians.}
Vodka: The Miracle Drug
{20 things you never knew you could do with vodka...}
Russian Trivia Quizes
{Introduction to a series of interactive quizes about Russia's history, events and people. }
