NEW YORK — “Are you Russian?” the woman asked in a Russian accent, and when I said I wasn’t, she moved on to ask someone else.

On August 12, 1952, 13 Jewish citizens of the Soviet Union were executed by firing squad in Moscow’s Lubyanka Prison. They ...

Lev Rubinstein, a Russian poet, activist and prominent figure in the Soviet literary underground movement, died Jan. 14 in Moscow from injuries after being struck by a car six days earlier. He was 76.

Now 71, she is a devout Orthodox Christian. Though she remains a profoundly Russian poet, steeped in Russian tradition, she is also fluent in Greek, Latin, French, English and Italian.

Lovers of 19th-century Russian literature have likely never heard the name Avdotya Panaeva, even though she traveled in the same literary circles as Tolstoy and Dostoevsky. Born in 1819 and raised in ...

Vladimir Putin is reputed to love Russian literature. So did Joseph Stalin, who read voraciously and even gave “advice” to authors after reading their manuscripts carefully. For that matter ...

THE literary career and reputation of the poet F. I. Tyutchev have certain points of resemblance to those, respectively and both together, of A. E. Housman and Gerard Manley Hopkins. Tyutchev was ...

When Russian poet, essayist and eventual Nobel Prize winner Joseph Brodsky was deported from the Soviet Union in 1972 for poetry that was considered “pornographic and anti-Soviet” and for “social ...

The Russian poet Alexander Pushkin stayed on the other side of the street. So how deep is Russia in the roots or the DNA of this city? BABICH: (Non-English language spoken).

Fortunately, the poet has more pleasant things to think about now. “I want to have a conversation with friends about the good old days on the Russian River,” he said.

A Russian poet and activist, Lev Rubinstein was a prominent figure in the Soviet literary underground movement died in Moscow on Sunday from injuries sustained in a car accident six days earlier.