July 01, 2007 A Monumental Anniversary Two hundred years ago this summer, Russia and the U.S. first established diplomatic relations.
July 01, 2007 Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves A crime is committed in Laura's village by some wandering gypsies. So her husband takes the law into his own hands...
July 01, 2007 A New Art: Theater and the 18-hour Meal When Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko met for their famous 18-hour meal in the summer of 1897, they could hardly have known they would change theater forever.
July 01, 2007 A Russian Feminist Anna Filosofova was born in 1837 and lived in 1912. She was one of Russia's first and most successful feminists.
July 01, 2007 Philsophy and Architecture We review Motherland: A Philosophilcal History of Russia, and Russian Architecture and the West, both invaluable books for the Russophile. Plus we note the winner of this year's Rossica Translation Prize. Follow this link for links to purchase books reviewed in this and previous issues.
July 01, 2007 Culinary Detente A wonderful recipe for shortbread almond cookies, which just happen to have a Cold War history to them.
July 01, 2007 Farewell to a Maverick We bid farewell to the First President of Russia, with some pithy and fascinating quotes from those who knew and claimed to know him.
July 01, 2007 The Grand Illusion Russia went to war with the Ottoman Empire in 1877 for what it thought were noble reasons. Yet, in the end, it turned out the usual way. A look back at that era, with contemporaneous accounts by Fyodor Dostoyevsky.
