Topic: Russian And Soviet History
Redistributing weath is not socialism," you say in your Jan. 21 editorial.. You are absolutely right. It's not socialism, it's communism - that is...
In the acknowledgments at the end of this book, Robert K. Massie admits he'll miss Catherine the Great, the subject of his latest biography.....
The Winter Palace By Eva Stachniak Doubleday Canada 444 pp; $24.95. . Reviewed by Sandra Kasturi. . We can't get enough Russia. From Tchaikovsky to...
It's not every Toronto author who arrives at their own book launch in an elaborate baroque gown, complete with pied-à-terre-worthy skirt and a...
The Winter Palace. . By Eva Stachniak Doubleday, 440 pages, $24.95. . The Winter Palace is Toronto author Eva Stachniak's latest novel about...
Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman. . Robert K. Massie, Random House, 656 pp; $40. . If all you know about Catherine the Great is that she ...
“Only in Russia poetry is respected - it gets people killed,” once joked somberly the poet Osip Mandelstam, who became the victim of his own morbid...
The Splendor of St. Petersburg, Russia's Imperial City Evening Seminar Monday, April 2 - 6:45 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. Tickets Login $30 Member Login $27...
Uniform granite sidewalks along Nevsky Prospekt. Piles of freshly baked bread, meat and cheese, and oranges, tomatoes, and cucumbers in...
Russian National historical-literary prize Alexander Nevsky was established by JSC Taleon (General director - Alexander Ebralidze) and Russian...