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Romanov's Wedding
"Like all proud fathers, Grigory Romanov, the mayor of Leningrad, wanted the ver...
Bugged?
While visiting Moscow to play the Russians in the historic Summit Series (in 197...
Putin's Bus
During the CIS Summit in 2001, Russian President Vladimir Putin used a luxury Ge...
Political Coup
One day during a summit meeting of Foreign Secretaries in the 1950s, Ernest Bevi...
Finger Wag?
While visiting the Black Sea one day at the height of the Cold War, Stewart Udal...
Destalinization
In the course of denouncing Joseph Stalin at a public meeting one day, Nikita Kh...
Nikita Khrushchev: Russian ...
"While Minister of Labour for Great Britain, I had the pleasure to have a meetin...
Small Consolation
One day at the height of Communist rule in the former Soviet Union, tennis star ...
Russian Censor
"When I was a foreign correspondent in Russia," Harry Greenwall once recalled, "...
Central Misperception
Leon Trotsky, who spent much of his time during World War I playing chess in Vie...
Russian Hospitality?
Although he generally promoted peaceful coexistence with the West (while attacki...
eBay
eBay founder Pierre Omidyar named his company after California's tech-savvy San ...
Churchill's Lion
During the Yalta conference in 1945, Winston Churchill and the British delegatio...
Secret Police?
While serving as America's ambassador in Moscow, Averell Harriman was shadowed e...
Russian Moment
While visiting Russia for a story one day, newscaster Connie Chung was asked by ...
Kalashnikov
Some 55 years after his invention of the AK-47 assault rifle (in 1947), Mikhail ...
Moscow Roscoe (long)
"Looking around for a suitable way of serving the community, Ross Perot decided ...
Great Seal
While serving as America's Ambassador to Moscow in 1945, Averell Harriman was gi...
Yuri Gagarin: Cosmonaut
On April 12, 1961, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin spent 108 minutes in orbit aboa...
Russian Judge
"England beat West Germany in 1966 for its only World Cup title thanks to an ove...
John Komrade Galbraith
The noted right-wing journalist William F. Buckley, Jr. once tried to arrange a ...
Lynne Cox: Babushka
On August 7, 1978, Lynne Cox swam across the Bering Strait. "When it finally hap...
Welcome to Russia
"While Arthur Ransome, now a favourite children's author, but then a corresponde...
Soviet Technology
BBC host John Simpson once had a memorable run-in with Soviet officials at Shere...
Minister to Russia
When President James Polk appointed James Buchanan to serve as secretary of stat...
Loony Bobby Fischer
"Chess is not merely a game of the mind, but of the heart, the soul, and the cho...
Rasputin: Pickled Penis
"Russia's first museum of erotica is to open in St Petersburg - with Rasputin's ...
Rhymes with Petard?
In 1919 Lincoln Steffens (then an admirer of socialism) and William Bullitt visi...
Grapes of Wrath
Russian censors permitted John Ford's classic 1940 film ...
Tatu
In March 2003, Julia Volkova and Lena Katina (the lesbian pop duo better known a...
Blue Lard
In early 2002, a pro-Kremlin youth movement called Moving Together (a group with...
Man of Letters
Shortly after the Bolsheviks seized power (during the Russian Revolution in 1917...
World Peace
In the early stages of World War I, Henry Ford - aiming to appeal to heads of st...
Desire for Peace
One day during the Yalta Conference following World War II (in 1945), Winston Ch...
Dissolute Czar
Though Czar Nicholas II faithfully wrote in his diary every day, the entries usu...
Hedgehog
When the Berlin Wall was built in 1961 (to separate Communist East Berlin from n...
Russian Winter
During a particularly cold spell one winter, the famous Russian chess player Sav...
Stalin & the Pope
At the end of World War II, FDR suggested that Pius XII should be among those co...
Yakov Smirnoff: Yep
"Yep in English mean yes," Yakov Smirnoff once remarked. "In Russian, means sex....
Vladimir Putin: Pox on Russia
In 2004, with an AIDS crisis looming in Russia (where, despite estimates that by...
St. Petersburg Duplex
In 1990, Mstislav Rostropovich and his wife, the soprano Galina Vishnevskaya, re...
Yakov
Though many Red Army soldiers were captured by the Nazis during World War II, Jo...
Indefatigable
In 1962, Shirley MacLaine traveled to Russia as a good will ambassador and spent...
Olympic Basketball
"The U.S. has never lost in Olympic basketball, no matter what the scoreboard sa...
Bail Out?
In 1998, Russian Prime Minister Yevgeny Primakov was asked about the government'...
Selznick & the Czar
As a Jewish boy growing up in Czarist Russia, Lewis J. Selznick (father of legen...
Euro & Dollar
One day in September 2003, Russian magazine publisher Igor Maltsev was surprised...
Crappy Playwright?
In 1887, Anton Chekhov wrote a letter to Maria Kiselyova suggesting that writers...
Frank Update
During the early days of friendship between the United States and the Soviet Uni...
Steely Response
Following Lenin's death, Joseph Stalin unceremoniously eliminated his military a...
Head of State
One day in 2003, the controversial Russian artist Alexander Kosolapov erected a ...
Shadow
One day Arno Dosch-Fleurot, reporting from Russia in the years following the Rus...
Artist of the People
"Feodor Chaliapin's fortune, more than £1,000,000, was lost in the Russian Revol...
Contrarian
Though Kondraty Ryleyev, like the other Decembrist conspirators, was condemned t...
Novgorod
When Svyatopolk, the Grand Prince of Kiev, demanded that Novgorod welcome his so...
Tommy Steele: British Luck
"I was having dinner at the Kremlin in Moscow in 1957," Tommy Steele once recall...
Housemaid of Domergue
"I [Jean Cocteau] will recount one thing... You perhaps know the work of the pai...
Three Cheers for Stalin? (l...
"A district party conference was under way in Moscow Province [in 1938]. It was ...
Leningrad Hotel
While taking a bath in a Leningrad hotel one day, Anthony Burgess was interrupte...
Russian Hicks
Perhaps unsurprisingly, Nikita Khrushchev (a peasant who worked in the Ukrainian...
Magnificent Snub
"At an international conference in Geneva in 1956 our then Foreign Secretary, Ha...
KGB Files
Before ascending to the Russian presidency, Vladimir Putin served as an agent wi...
Plutos: Russian Business (l...
"When Aleksei Panteliushin turned up at Plutos, his sausage factory in northern ...
Stanislav Chistov: Too Good
Ironically, Mighty Ducks forward Stanislav Chistov might have reached the NHL so...
Vladimir Putin: Press Freed...
"[Russian President Vladimir Putin's] doings are covered Soviet-style in minute ...
Mikhail Khodorkovsky: Yukos...
As the Russian state imploded in the early 1990s, many government assets were au...
Anatoly Kvashnin: Military ...
Russian army chief of staff Anatoly Kvashnin was fired in 2004, after seven year...
Not So Great?
As part of her plan for the modernization of Russia, Catherine the Great envisio...
Gulag
Despite the brutality of Joseph Stalin's totalitarian regime, his propaganda mac...
Guest Worker
While touring the Soviet Union with the original cast of the Stratford Festival ...
Russian Democrat
Boris Yeltsin's appointment of Vladimir Putin (a former KGB agent) to succeed hi...
Boris Pasternak & Joseph St...
In 1934, Joseph Stalin telephoned Boris Pasternak - a friend of Osip Mandelstam,...
Dmitri Hvorostovsky
The famed baritone Dmitri Hvorostovsky once recalled his first trip outside the ...
Russian Corruption
One day in 2001, Russia's Interior Minister Vladimir Rushailo sought to address ...
Welcome to Russia (long and...
Russian novelist Gary Shteyngart once showed a reporter several snapshots of a r...
Fixed Thinking
During his tenure as Soviet president, Mikhail Gorbachev visited Silvio Berlusco...
Peter's Beard
In 1698, as part of his bid to westernize Russia, Peter the Great decreed that b...
Russian Gourmet
Among the guests to the White House during World War II was Soviet foreign minis...
Brodsky & Lenin
In 1924, the Russian city of St. Petersburg was renamed Leningrad in honor of th...
Shostakovich & Stalin
"When Dmitri Shostakovich answered his phone one day in March 1949 he was told t...
Sakharov & Khrushchev
In September 1962, Andrei Sakharov, then a decorated Soviet physicist developing...
Russian Revolution?
In 2003, an election was held in St Petersburg to find a new governor for Russia...
Monosyllables
Leonhard Euler was once invited by Frederick the Great to join his Academy in Be...
Harry Potter and the Angry ...
In 2002, a Russian law firm began drawing up legal action against the Warner Bro...
Branded Communist
The power struggles under Stalin and his successors were once compared with thos...
Kitchen Debate
In late 1958, at the height of the Cold War, the Soviet Union and the United Sta...
Red Terror
"To my paper, the New York World, I had sent a lengthy cable on The Red T...
Liberal Czar?
Russian czar Alexander II, famed for his emancipation of the serfs in 1861, inst...
Rachmaninov & Stravinsky
Though little love was lost between Sergei Rachmaninov and his fellow composer I...
International Tchaikovsky P...
In 1958, at the height of the cold war, the Soviet Union staged an International...
President Tatu?
In December 2003, Russian pop stars Yulia Volkova, 18, and Lena Katina, 19 (of T...
Russian Parliament
In 2004, a cafeteria in the Russian parliament, prompted by a rash of disappeari...
Lukewarm
Before the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979, Afghani President Mohammed Da...
Demographer
Russian ultra-nationalist politician Vladimir Zhirinovksy once offered to do his...
Vitalij Djomocka: Gangster ...
After becoming upset at the unrealistic portrayal of gangster life on Russian te...
Dogmeat
while walking in England one day in 1936, the Russian chess master Mikhail Botvi...
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