Today, moving from the city to the countryside has become the mainstream in Russia, but in 2012 the Bajans were one of the first such families to step into the unknown, rethinking the concept of ...

By 1917, the battlefields of WWI had taken around 1 million Russian lives, most of them peasants and workers in soldiers' uniforms who would otherwise have been feeding and supplying Russia's cities.

Over three-quarters of the Russian population were unhappy with their position in the Empire. Peasants and workers alike suffered horrendous living and working conditions and hence posed a threat ...