As Russians remember the victims of the Stalinist purges, which reached fever pitch 75 years ago, a newly published database gives many Muscovites a chance to discover the chilling history on their ...

Champagne on tap, women without makeup, marches in the streets – these and other things surprised famous foreign visitors to the Russian capital. In Soviet times, not many foreigners got to see the ...

Moscow’s Gulag History Museum announced Wednesday that it’s temporarily suspending operations starting November 14 due to “fire safety violations.” “As a result of an inspection by specialists from ...

St Basil’s Cathedral, Moscow. Legend has it that its builder was blinded post-construction so that a structure of its beauty could never be built again. (Photo by Vierro via Pexels) There's visual ...

The building that houses the store today was built in the late 18th century by order of Ekaterina Kozitskaya, daughter of a major industrialist and wife of Catherine the Great’s cabinet secretary.

Moscow is a city steeped in history — and clogged with traffic. It's among the world's most congested centers, renowned for erratic drivers and dangerous roads. In an effort to appreciate the history ...