Veliky Novgorod is to the Russian traveler like Pushkin is to Russian literature. Our everything. The same variety of themes and genres. The same combination of worldwide responsiveness and national flavor… A walk around Novgorod can become an easy elegy, or it can drag you into a deep historical investigation. The city can be captivatedContinue…

On that spring day, there was a commotion in the building of the Moscow Stock Exchange Committee on Ilyinka. On April 12, 1910, representatives of as many as 73 firms from the Moscow Industrial District gathered here. This unusual meeting was chaired by a representative of the famous merchant dynasty, banker Pavel Pavlovich Ryabushinsky.Most ofContinue…

Today, Tara is the only city in Western Siberia where archaeological research has been carried out purposefully for seventeen years. It is not surprising that collections of Tarsk artifacts regularly become the decoration of Omsk museums. A long–term exhibition entitled “Tara is a particularly significant but unknown pearl of Western Siberia” was held in theContinue…