Russian history is interesting. Not always beautiful, not always glorious, but almost always... interesting.

Guard duty sends an old villager back to school, and down a broad and dusty lane full of memories.

A group of intrepid preservationists toil quietly in Russia’s northern realms to preserve old wooden churches and izbas that are just a snowstorm away from perishing.

Here’s the thing about history: you can’t see everything that is going on when you are living it, and then, when you try to dredge up what really happened, all you’ve got is your frail memories.

Ever wanted to take a stroll in nineteenth century Moscow? See how one Russian uses machine learning to make grainy old videos ever more realistic.

Russia's "Echelon of Victory" train-borne museum prepares to educate this spring.

300 years of book burnings, banishments, and censorship in Russian books.

Thirty-four years ago this week, the Mir Space Station was launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome.

Mikhail is the director of a book store that has been operating in St. Petersburg since 1926.

In this week's G-rated Odder News: Kid-friendly World War II history, kid-friendly educational TV, and kid-friendly swearing lessons.

Two sisters lost contact as teenagers in 1942, during their evacuation from the Battle of Stalingrad. They never lost hope they would find each other.

Tuesday was 75th anniversary of the start of the Yalta Conference, the first step in rebuilding the post-War world.