These railway, road and pedestrian bridges cross mountain passes in the Urals and fast-flowing rivers in Sochi. But the oldest stone viaduct we found is located in Kaluga.

Movies about Soviet Russia and periodical costume dramas - from the master of Russian art house cinema.

How to cook chicken fillets in a way that’ll have your guests lick their plates clean?

This relative of the last Russian tsar was also brutally killed by the Bolsheviks. Now her figure stands among other martyrs alongside Martin Luther King.

Russian courtship and matrimonial rituals were as complex as they come. Follow everything a 17th-19th century Russian girl had to go through in order to marry her husband, as we reenact the process through three imaginary letters.