You can come across his sculptures in a London park, on the Moscow Metro and on the Baikal island of Olkhon. His art has a distinctive style and combines Buddhist references, nature and human beings.

She’s a living chess legend, the first woman to receive the title of grandmaster among men. How did she do it?

Seems that Russians are some of the biggest enthusiasts of mushrooms in the world! And they are most fascinated by the process of collecting mushrooms, or “silent hunting”, as they call it.

An Emmy-winning Russian-born photographer shows her view of the magnificent world of Russian dance and its most renowned artists.

As a boy, Lenin used to be very talented, and had a cynical temper