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Near Moscow: Whitney Houston in the Soviet army The front page mainstream grief about the death of stars always makes me ask...
Caucasian holiday? The mountains catch your eye wherever you are in the Caucasus. Even when you...
Extremely obscure, very authentic, unbelievably Bulgakov-ish… At the hour of the hot spring sunset, two citizens appeared at Patriarch's...
Aleksandr Ostrovsky was a playwright, one of the great representatives of Russian realism and also the father of contemporary Russian theatre, which he reformed in a major way.
Nearly 50 of the plays he wrote were filled with wit, and his work depicted the conflict between the merchant class and the poor population at the bottom of the social ladder. Some of his plays were so controversial that he was even fired from his job as a lawyer.