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Krylov on democracy and how leaders are chosen: "However just the rules and laws, in unjust hands or beaks or paws they can be bent to serve the goal of leaders loath to lose control."

Our translator of Krylov's difficult fables shares how she approaches translation of this most colloquial of poets.

“Grandfather” Ivan Krylov was widely known for his gargantuan appetites and for the dinner parties regularly thrown in his honor. Our recipe for Ukha should satisfy.

Living on ice, the boorocracy, profiling perps, naming cities, and where smoking holds sway.

Krylov on how one negotiates with wolves. Hint: one doesn't. "Of wolves I’ve learned a thing or two. With them there’s only one sure truce."

Pavel Bazhov, Russia's greatest modern fabulist, had a complicated and eventful life.

How salt riots and a young tsar led to a Zemsky Sobor and a new body of laws, The Council Code.

The story of a real-life military factory told through monologues collected from anonymized workers, managers, and engineers. (novel excerpt)

Photos captured by an unknown Czech Legionnaire, during those troops’ long sojourn in Russia from 1916-1919.

Curling snow drifts along the Dnieper River remind of a Hokusai painting.

“What have you done to my magazine?!"

Russia has its own way of marking Twelfth Night (Ephiphany). But as a Christian holiday it misses the mark.