On November 9 each year, Russia celebrates the birthday of the famous 19th century novelist. He was born in 1818 and, for some reason, was a little lost in the shadow of Tolstoy’s and Dostoyevsky’s ...
with “Crime and Punishment,” a two-act world premiere based on Dostoyevsky’s classic novel of violence and retribution in 19th-century Russia, playing the final week.
Independent Opera's “The Stone Guest” is revelatory, L.A. Opera's "Romeo and Juliet" is exhilarating and Pacific Opera ...
Russia’s identity, not its security or the fear of NATO, has historically been the main driver of Moscow’s aggression toward ...
In the 18th century, Russians created the samovar, a distinctive device for brewing tea. Today, enjoying tea alongside snacks and desserts is still a cherished social activity in Russia. In the ...
The premiere of a 19th century play directed by John Malkovich was performed in an almost empty Sofia National Theatre after ...
The fear among some Russians – and those in the West – is that China could turn Russia’s Far East into its satellite, using ...
A 19th-century play directed by US actor John Malkovich has enraged nationalists in Bulgaria who call it an insult to the ...
The theory of imperialism put forward by Vladimir Lenin to end World War I remains, if properly qualified, the best point of ...
Who were the colonists rushing north in 1867 after the United States purchased Russia’s interest in ... harshly the collision of cultures in 19th-century Sitka. The consequences of that time ...
Consider too the tragic end of the pioneering 19th-century Scottish plant hunter David Douglas ... was expelled twice from ...