Tajikistan's president Emomali Rahmon at the Igora resort in the Leningrad Region, Russia, Tuesday, Dec 24, 2024 ...

Did you know both the chess masters - Romanovsky and Rabinovich - called in their moves by telephone to coordinators on site, and the latter used megaphones to command the human chess pieces.

Ms. Osipenko brought an expressive style that helped modernize Soviet ballet but she ran afoul with authorities at the peak of her career.

It was in judo class at the age of 12 that Putin met one of his lifelong friends: Arkady Rotenberg. The pair remained close, and in the cloak-and-dagger world of Russian politics, it would be old ...

“He had,” comments Pears, “a far better companion to talk to.” The couple were married in Leningrad’s Palace of Marriages on 10 August 1965. In England, Salmina reinvented herself as a ...

The Winter Palace is widely believed to have suffered ... The cradle of the Russian Revolution, St Petersburg, was renamed Leningrad in his honour. Lenin taught generations of Soviet children ...

The only determined defenders of the palace were the members of a female ... After the First World War, the city became Leningrad. Unlike most other major cities, it lacked an agricultural ...

Salmina and Haskell marrying at Leningrad’s Palace of Marriages in 1965 In the end one wonders if Francis’s gloom could only have been alleviated by someone as relentlessly positive as Larissa.

The siege of Leningrad was the longest siege in the history of modern warfare. It lasted 872 days but is colloquially known as the 900-day siege. Leningrad’s population of 2.5 million was ...

Leningrad under siege was a pitiless place ... The samples were wrapped in tissue paper and transported to the institute, housed in a former palace. By 1933, the collection was ‘unrivalled in ...

Today is a special day. Eighty-one years ago, on January 27, 1944, the most terrible blockade in the history of mankind – the siege of Leningrad (modern-day St Petersburg) – ended. Its ...