Showing posts with the label Russia

Citizens! During Shelling This Side of The Street is The Most Dangerous

Feb 15, 2021

The city of Saint Petersburg is one of the most beautiful cities in Russia and in eastern Europe, with a great ensemble of historic building...

Why The Soviet Union Exchanged Warships For Pepsi

Jan 20, 2021

The American soft drink giant Pepsi has a long presence in Russia dating back to the early 1970s when Russia was still a part of the Soviet ...

Medieval Russians Built Churches in One Day to Ward Off Epidemics

Dec 18, 2020

In the middle ages, many Russian communities, especially in the Novgorod and Pskov regions, believed in building churches as response to cal...

Hostile Façades

Nov 27, 2020

The old city of Segovia, about 90 km north of Madrid, is best known for its aqueduct , but this historic city is full of architectural curio...

Vladimir Tatlin’s Unbuilt Tower

Sep 16, 2020

After the Russian Revolution of 1917, the leader of the victorious Bolshevik Party, Vladimir Lenin, launched a massive monument-building pro...

A Hidden Memorial to Lenin in a Forest

Jul 9, 2020

Vladimir Lenin was a controversial Russian revolutionary leader who has been idolized and demonized in equal proportions since his death in ...

The Rzhev Memorial to Soviet Soldiers

Jun 29, 2020

A towering new statue honoring Soviet soldiers who lost their lives during the Second World War is to be unveiled tomorrow, June 30, in th...

Tsar Tank

May 20, 2020

Before World War I, military tanks were a mere concept. Leonardo da Vinci made sketches of a human-powered armored vehicle, with canons all ...

The Historic Meeting on Elbe River

Apr 10, 2020

April 25, 1945, is a date few remember. But it was a significant day in the history of the world. On this day, American troops sweeping in...

The Soviet Census Debacle of 1937

Feb 26, 2020

In 1937, the Soviet Union conducted its first population census in eleven years. Soviet leaders, especially Stalin, had great expectations...