The weeklong festival has been compared to Mardi Gras, marking the start of Lent for Orthodox Christians. People in costumes march on Moscow's Manezhnaya Square during the Maslenitsa festival ...
Religious congregations have always featured large in American public life. In their 2010 book “American Grace,” political scientists Robert Putnam and David Campbell showed empirically that “more ...
Originally conceived in the mid-1800s to honor Tsarevich Nicholas Alexandrovich (who died in Nice), the St. Nicholas Russian Orthodox Cathedral wasn't completed until the early 20th century. Tsar ...