Russian writers do not like mineral water, but they do demand kvass – with ice, no less. Raise a toast to vodka's birthday! We run tabs for Russian writers, although some of them pay on the spot ...

The two great writers of the 19th century had completely different ideologies. Ivan Turgenev, author of the novel Fathers and Sons , was a convinced Westernizer and a liberal. Fyodor Dostoyevsky ...

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Director and choreographer Katie Spelman’s staging of “Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812” is a formidable achievement for Writers Theatre. It’s a powerful, visually gorgeous ...

They belonged to two different social classes and two different generations. However, there was great mutual respect and admiration between Russian writers: Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) and Anton ...

US President Donald Trump on Monday raised eyebrows by claiming that former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev had suggested ...

MOUSSORGSKY—Oskar von Riesemann, translated by Paul England—Knopf ($5). Great Russian writers are Gogol, Tolstoy, Turgeniev, Dostoievsky—products all of the first days when Russia ...

What a fabulous, tangled web is woven in glorious 'Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet' at Writers Theatre Sung through in the style of an opera, the musical feels driven by a radiant, pulsing ...

And all these great, patriotic stories that come out on Russian TV, sort of the happy and wonderful and “We’re just going to defeat all the enemies” — I lived in doublespeak world. I live ...

Ehrenburg, according to the report called on Soviet writers to concern themselves with the problem of anti-Semitism, in the tradition of great Russian writers of the past, like Anton Chekhov.