Freemasonry came to Russia in 1731 when Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of England Lord Lowell appointed Captain John Phillips Grand Master of Russia, who subsequently preached among a small circle of ...

Lines were a sign of the times - most goods were in short supply and their rare appearance on shelves in shops sometimes caused actual stampedes. In every Soviet food store one could almost always buy ...

A huge public celebration of the coronation of Nicholas II was planned at the Khodynskoe field in Moscow, but poor organizing caused a disaster. Peter the Great moved the Russian capital from Moscow ...

Sarah Welch/wikipedia.org Here’s a toast to the explorers and archaeologists who discovered the plant used to produce the drink of the ancient Indians. One of the most mysterious drinks in the history ...

The “Battle on the Ice” where Alexander Nevsky, a Russian prince, defeated the knights of the Livonian Order, is considered a milestone in Russian history. We explain this, and other important facts ...

To see 4 out of Russia’s 5 main rivers, you need to travel to Siberia, while the famous Volga snakes through the European part of the country. President Putin's favorite band, LUBE, has a song with ...

To put it simple: you'll need to be a good and strong person with no legal issues back home. In 2015, Russian president Vladimir Putin signed a decree allowing any foreign citizens to join the country ...

A reproductive gynecologist, a brand director and a head of a service center - what can possibly unite these professions? While it sounds like the start of a funny story, these jobs were actually ...

Early February marks the 76th anniversary of the end of the Battle of Stalingrad, the largest military engagement in history. The Franco-American film, Enemy at the Gates, recreated those events and ...

Dr Ernst Muldashev, a Russian ophthalmologist based in Ufa, came up with a theory that Mount Kailash in Tibet is actually an ancient manmade pyramid that is surrounded by smaller pyramids and is ...

During the 70 years of the existence of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the number of constituent parts changed, but most of the time there were 15 of them. Here is the list. In the beginning ...

There was only one state that effectively subdued Russia, and it’s long gone now. When talking about enemies trying to invade and conquer Russia, we’re talking about a time span of roughly 1,000 years ...