The peasant worldview in the late 19th and early 20th centuries was characterized by numerous vestiges of paganism, Igor Marzaliuk said in the latest episode of BelTA’s project True History. Lectures ...

Tchaikovsky, a master of orchestral sonority, places a good part of the emotional and expressive burden on the orchestra, leaving the singers with well-crafted melodies and dialogues in Russian speech ...

A new book by the historian Christopher Clark chronicles a nearly 200-year-old scandal with echoes of the present day.

Igor Marzalyuk noted that Evdokim Romanov preserved several versions of a legend about Ilyushka that existed in Bykhov Uezd.

Alexander Pushkin, often hailed as the greatest Russian poet and the founder of modern Russian literature, was a towering figure in the literary world. Born on June 6, 1799, in Moscow, Pushkin was ...

Taras Shevchenko, a prominent Ukrainian poet, writer, artist, and public figure of the 19th century, is revered as a national hero in Ukraine. His literary works, which primarily focus on the lives ...