The winter old man with gifts became a necessary character of the New Year only in the Soviet years, but this character has ...

An incredible fairy tale that will make you believe that all dreams can come true. Even Disney would love to adapt this story ...

This meal is famous for being incredibly soft and literally melting in your mouth... and there is an interesting secret ...

How about ice cream in a flying saucer or coffee at an altitude of 330 meters? These original cafes were especially popular ...

Love triangle drama is as old as the world. But, this song gives it a Soviet twist, because it is performed by a lady who denies her love, due to moral reasons. It’s also part of the popular ...

You'll be surprised, but the English words 'nose', 'secret', 'goose', as well as a few others, actually sound very familiar ...

All the nobility of the Russian Empire, including the tsar's family, liked to spend their holidays on the southern Russian ...

These movies were created at the dawn of Russian cinematography, but still amaze viewers even today. This was one of the ...

‘Atlant’ is the brainchild of the ‘Myasishchev’ Design Bureau. In fact, to transport such space components as mentioned above ...

Count Alexei Bestuzhev-Ryumin lived in Europe from a young age. In 1707, he and his brother Mikhail went to study in ...

The Guard in 18th-century Russia loosely resembled the Praetorians of the Roman Empire. It was often up to them to decide who ...

Makovsky painted ‘The Kissing Rite’ in his Paris studio in 1895; a year later, he presented it at the All-Russian exhibition ...