January 01, 2003 St. Petersburg in Black & White This stark, vivid exhibition of photos and etchings of St. Petersburg offers a fascinating take on the Northern Capital.
January 01, 2003 Winner Take All From rather inauspicious origins in the Ural mountains, Konstantin Tszyu has gone on to become the world's greatest boxer in his weight class. But he has never lost his perspective.
January 01, 2003 Four books A review of: Stamp Album, by Andrei Sergeev; Ivan the Terrible, by Robert Payne & Nikita Romanoff; Russia's Virtual Economy, by Clifford G. Gaddy & Barry W. Ickes; The Russian Context, by Eloise M. Boyle & Genevra Gerhart, eds.
January 01, 2003 A Honey of a Winter Drink Sbiten was the drink of choice in Russia long before tea made its appearance.
January 01, 2003 Marina Raskova and Soviet Women Aviators of WWII Marina Raskova, who founded the world's first female aviator corps, has a life story as amazing as the achievements of the corps bearing her name that went on to fight in WWII.
January 01, 2003 Studying Russian Outside the Capitals Some reasons to consider studying Russian outside Moscow and St. Petersburg, with a listing of schools and their programs in provincial cities.
November 01, 2002 A Small Crowd of Oxymorons A look at some of the oxymorons that litter the Russian language.
November 01, 2002 Aiding Siberia While the Russian Civil War raged, a few hundred American Red Cross volunteers labored in far-flung Siberian cities to help refugees and wounded soldiers. Florence Hoffman was one of those volunteers three-quarters of a century ago, and this is her first-hand account of her year in Siberia.
