When you reflect that Alexander Pushkin created a literary language, established a national literature, wrote a bookshelf full of narrative poems, dramatic poems, political poems, prose tales ...

But that's exactly what happened when the subject of Alexander Pushkin came up on a Russian TV programme. The interviewee, Alexei Navalny, is an anti-corruption campaigner who has long been one of ...

It houses the largest collection of European art in Moscow, and it was named in honor of one of Russia's premier poets, Alexander Pushkin. You don't go here to read sonnets, though. Instead ...