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Among the many treasures of the historic Russian north, one of the richest is the town of Kargopol. A stroll through town reveals many traditional...

At first sight, there are no differences to speak of: All these words relate to monastic communities. But, there are, in fact, some subtle...

Russian documentary The Holy Archipelago won the main award at the film festival in the United States because it was of superior quality and offered a different view of Russia, Executive Director of the Great Lakes Christian Film Festival in Buffalo, Shawn Patrick Greene, told Sputnik.

The subway in the capital was the shopfront of Soviet aesthetics and the Stalin Empire style. But, even there, among the images of workers and...

Throughout Russian history, churches were often the prettiest and most prestigious buildings in the whole city. Golden or colored church domes have...

All his life, he was possessed by two passions: painting and the Far North. Once, it almost cost him his life.

There’s a widespread myth that Tsar Ivan the Terrible blinded the architects Postnik and Barma after they had completed work on St. Basil’s Cathedral...

The British Royal Collection has more than 600 pieces of art with Russian roots, from precious Fabergé eggs to enormous vases made of natural

Camp Russia: On Zakhar Prilepin’s “The Monastery” Zakhar Prilepin THE LAST TIME ONE of Zakhar Prilepin’s novels was translated into English, the 2014 Winter Olympics had just wrapped up in Sochi, and Putin was pretending to look the other way while his insignia-free soldiers marched into Ukraine. That April, Prilepin’s fast-paced, anti-government protest novel Sankya was published with a foreword by Alexei Navalny, himself no fan of the Russian state. In it, Navalny feted this young,...