Russian culture

Mount Beshtau: five legendary peaks that everyone can conquer Mount Beshtau is the highest mountain in Pyatigorye. Its name, translated from the Turkic, sounds like this: Five (Besh) mountains (tau).…

How foreign stars rested in Russia and the Soviet Union: photo of Sophia Loren in the Moscow region and Tom Hardy in Yakutia There is a stereotype that foreigners do…

Park Dubki in Moscow: a bridge in the 19th century Moscow park Dubki is not only a quiet and cozy corner of nature, squeezed between Dmitrovskoe highway and Timiryazevskaya street,…

If you have a little time in Moscow, and you want the capital to be remembered not only for its luxury and huge squares, but also for estates with amazing…

Krutitsy courtyard is, without exaggeration, a unique corner of Moscow, truly imbued with the spirit of antiquity. Krutitsy with their ensemble of red-brick buildings of the late 17th century and…

Holy spring of Paraskeva Friday, histiry Near Podolsk, on the opposite bank of the Desna River from the Church of the Sign of the Most Holy Theotokos (Dubrovitsy village), there…