Russia has always been a multinational country. Besides numerous indigenous peoples, there are communities from neighboring states.

Wedding feasts in Russia lasted from several days up to a week, so the variety of dishes that were presented was a display of wealth of the newlyweds’ families and many dishes were meant to bless the marriage with happiness and rich offspring to the future family. 

The great Russian writer enjoyed taking pictures, listening to music on a gramophone, and talking on the telephone. Still, he could not conclude with certainty if the technological revolution was a good thing or not.

Alexandr Moskalev worked his whole life on new types of aircraft, but most of his projects remained on paper.

Icons painted on dry fish were popular among a certain socioeconomic class of people. What’s the deal with that?