This installment of Lit in 10 tells the tragic story of Anna Karenina in 10 frames. Scroll down for an illustrated summary of ...

Before the revolution of 1917, Iulii Martov was arguably a more prominent figure in Russia’s socialist movement than Vladimir ...

And I am proud that now this record, which was considered eternal, belongs to a Russian simple peasant, who was given a standing ovation even in the USA. I am also proud that I had the opportunity to ...

In Austria-Hungary, and later in the Russian civil war, scores of thousands of armed peasant deserters banded together to form motley “green” forces based in forests and hilly areas.

"OH thou great All-Russian Sphinx, it is not easy to be thy Oedipus." Thus Ivan Turgeniev apostrophized the Russian peasant. And a sphinx the peasant has been, even since the educated classes of the ...

Russia has no strike troubles (workers who strike have a way of disappearing the same night), but the Russian peasant is the Kremlin’s chronic headache. His food is needed to feed the ...

With his rumpled, long-bearded appearance, he resembles a classical Russian muzhik or Leo Tolstoy in his Russian peasant guise.

“ [Peasants] have been here for a thousand years, but they don’t really figure as ‘actors’. Norman Davies, who writes about the Polish history, talks about Polish and Russian peasants as a ...

For this extraordinary ballet, depicting a traditional Russian peasant wedding in Stravinsky’s bracing hyper-modern musical language of the 1910s, the composer needed to find an instrumentation to be ...