Russian Life Magazine

Explore past issues of the magazine. Issues published in the last year are generally available for sale as single issues.

Jan/Feb 2015

January/February 2015

This issue of Russian Life covers everything from the history of Red Square to Boris Pasternak, Borshch, being born in 19th century Russia, a photo essay on Crimea and short-form idioms.
Nov/Dec 2014

November/December 2014

Berlin Wall 25 Years After, Lenin Kitsch, The Museum of All Things, Translator's Memoir, Villages Preserved from Time
Sep/Oct 2014

September/October 2014

This fall, we turn our attention to the Moscow Zoo, Russia's second most famous poet, wolves in Siberia and street photographer, among other things.
July/Aug 2014

July/August 2014

Russia on the Eve of WWI • Spas in Russian Culture • Ukrainian Street Artists • Male Kissing • Holy Spring of Iskitim • Dacha Language • Forbidding Smoking and Foul Language • Cold War in Space • Ilya Repin • Solzhenitsyn • War Invalids • Mustard • Smolensk • Melon Preserves

 

May/June 2014

May/June 2014

Elusive Wild Tulips • Mysterious Local Church • SciFi Excerpt • The Northern Sea Route • From Orphans to Paralympians • Russia's Eiffel Tower • Unanimous Russia • Mikhail Glinka • Berlin Blockade • Independent Press Begone • Volga River Mousse • Survival Ukrainian

 

Mar/Apr 2014

March/April 2014

Terror and Art (Pavel Korin) • Chasing Nabokov • Mysterious Folk Art • A Secret UK Bunker • World's End ~ A Trip to Distant Yamal • Linguistic Hats • Russians in Paris • The Birth of Subbotniki • Karelian Pies • Spy Thrillers, Memoirs, Hobbits and a Crossword, and much more.

 

Jan/Feb 2014

January/February 2014

Russia Olympic Chances • Moscow 1980 vs. Sochi 2014 • The Skating Pair that Started it All • What to Do in Sochi After the Games • Ukraine Between Russia and a Hard Place • Dmitry Mendeleyev • Looking Back at 1914 • Banya Language • Cod Recipe

 

Nov/Dec 2013

November/December 2013

Joining the army, fighting for Navalny, Russian Chicago, a children's railroad, a poet turned historian, a visit to the "stolby" on the Lena River and so much more.

Sep/Oct 2013

September/October 2013

Why Babushkas Matter • Why Russians Don't Run • Battle of Nations • 10 Tips for Edward Snowden • Death Mask Secrets • Western Small Businesspeople in Russia • Dostoyevsky Under Fire • Sino-Soviet Split • Catherine II's Hospital • Souffleed Baked Apples • Spy Language

 

July/Aug 2013

July/August 2013

Lost Photos Rediscovered • Izhevsk • Russian Bees Saving US Agriculture • Russian Paris • The Last Days of Russian America • Surviving Diminutives • Okroshka • Pyotr Nesterov • Young Pushkin • Lenin in London

 

May/June 2013

May/June 2013

Siberian Tea Road • China's Russian Cartoonist • Romanovs' 400th Anniversary • Russian Hawaii • Secrets of the Romanovs • Climbing Mt. Elbrus • The Russian Tongue • Chelyabinsk Meteor • Catherine's Decree of Secrecy • Shishkin's Protest • The Last Oligarch

 

Mar/Apr 2013

March/April 2013

The Broken Orphan System • Alef Sausage • 1983: The Scariest Year • Koryak Cultural Loss • Russian Alaska • Bolshoi Acid Attack • Stalin's Death • Sophia Paleologue • Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin • Language of Military Gear • Kamchatka • Salmon zakuski • One Adoptee's Tale

 

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