This week arts and crafts flourish under quarantine; a heatwave hits an unlikely place, and coronavirus fashion hits a new high (or low?).

The little-known fates of the wives of Ivan the Terrible's son.

When the daughter of one of Europe’s most respected kings married the tsar’s son, it seemed like a match made in Heaven. And then the Kremlin court rivalries began.

In this week's Odder News, the Moscow Zoo tries a new marketing tactic; a consumer protection agency gives its condom recommendations; and high winds call for desperate measures.

A Russian woman makes 2 million euros through illicit means.

A public opinion survey reveals that Russians are averse to a woman holding Putin's office.

On the occasion of the great writer’s 160th birthday, we offer up one of his lesser-known classics, newly translated.

Russia has everything, including Amazonians.

The wealthiest woman on the African continent is, apparently, a Russian citizen.

170 years ago this week, January 15, 1850, the mathematician Sofia Kovalevskaya was born.

Among “the Terrible’s” unfortunate wives, Maria Temryukovna, his second, is an interesting case.

An excerpt from the new translation of a novel by Karolina Pavlova (1807-1893), translated by Barbara Heldt.