EADaily, February 18th, 2026. The film "The Tale of Tsar Saltan" by Sarik Andreasyan showed the best start in the history of domestic film distribution for Russian films released outside the New Year ...

Alexander Pushkin is Russia’s favorite literary son, not ours, which hardly justifies the fact that his two-hundred-and-tenth anniversary—he was born in 1799 and died, in a duel, in 1837—has not ...

Two great obstacles confront the non-Russian speaking reader when reading Pushkin. The first, famously, concerns his language. Many is the reader who, after reading a few of his more Byronic poems, or ...

Three remote estates in Pskov Region aren’t your obvious tourist destinations but we bet you won’t regret a single minute spent in this picturesque area. Alexander Pushkin may not be as popular ...

Nicholas I, a humourless and ruthless autocrat, had begun his reign by executing five aristocrats who had led the Decembrist uprising against him in 1825; another 120 conspirators were exiled to the ...

TASS FACTBOX. June 6, 2019 marks 220 years since the birth of Great Russian poet, playwright, prose writer Alexander Pushkin Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin was born on June 6, 1799 in Moscow in the ...

The cultural event was attended both in person and online by distinguished Russian and Iranian figures, including diplomats, scholars, literary researchers, and enthusiasts of comparative literature ...