From grand epics like Reds to more underrated movies like Rasputin: Dark Servant of Destiny, these are the best movies about ...

The Russian Revolution resulted in the establishment of the first Communist state in history and was the work of Vladimir ...

Among the 20th century’s most significant choreographers, he led the Bolshoi Ballet for more than 30 years, creating epic ...

Russian composer and pianist Sergei Rachmaninoff died in 1943, weeks after giving his final performance, at the University of ...

With the suppression of the abortive uprising, Remnev was arrested on 5th July and held in the Kresty prison, in the same block as Trotsky (not actually a member of the Bolsheviks at this time), and ...

Founded by priests and clergy fleeing the Russian Revolution in 1917, ROCOR is seen by many as the most conservative Orthodox ...

Broadly, the shows is in thrall to Grigory Rasputin, the mystic who exerted an unhealthy influence on the Romanov royal family in the years just before the Russian Revolution. His sway unsettled ...

Vladimir Tretchikoff's iconic painting "Lady from the Orient" has sold for more than $1.7m in a new world record for the ...

In an attempt to divert attention from their own role in helping impose job losses, the BLET published a statement on its ...

Inside and outside the country, digital activists are using the power of the internet to expose human rights abuses The summer 2017 issue of Index on Censorship magazine explores how the 1917 Russian ...

You bet. This is a Russian chess set, made in 1922-23, when the Russian Revolution was new. Led by Lenin and Trotsky, the Bolsheviks had lately taken over Russia, and were still barely afloat in a ...