Back in the 1920s, the world’s first seedbank was established in a former palace in Leningrad (the city later renamed St ...

Lenin’s successors paid adulation to their defunct leader by renaming the city Leningrad. Western editors didn’t take much notice. The Soviets, by transferring the capital to Moscow and by ...

Russian activist Lyudmila Vasilyeva, an 84-year-old survivor of the siege of Leningrad in World War Two, has been fined by a court after protesting Russia's war in Ukraine. During her sentencing ...

In her childhood years, Alisa Freindlich attended the drama and music classes of the Leningrad Palace of Pioneers. During the Second World War she survived the 900-day-long Siege of Leningrad and ...