14 Feb 2026, 12:55 UTC246 views7 reactionsread 21 August 2026 🎩 Although Russian writer Alexander Kuprin (1870-1938) came from a nobleman’s family, he had to earn his own living. In the beginning, he served in the military (army was one the subjects in his later literary works), then resigned and changed many jobs before establishing himself as a writer.
🎭 One of Kuprin’s occupations was at a theatre. His experience as an actor and stage worker was expressed in his several sho…
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10 Feb 2026, 09:08 UTC284 views6 reactionsread 21 August 2026 ❤️🩹 Today is the day to commemorate Alexander Pushkin: he died on 10 February 1837 after the duel with D’Anthès.
In the world of literature, Pushkin is immortal, especially for Russians. His literary legacy is large, and includes works of every genre.
♠️This time it is «The Queen of Spades» - a short story of a desperate gambler who believes a rumour that an old countess knows certain «three cards» that always win.…
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9 Feb 2026, 07:23 UTC209 views2 reactionsread 21 August 2026 Photo
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8 Feb 2026, 08:42 UTC212 views3 reactionsread 21 August 2026 🛸✨Sergei Lukyanenko is the best-known and bestselling contemporary Russian Sci-Fi author.
He was born in Kazakhstan in 1968. A fan of the Strugatsky brothers, Lukyanenko “took up the torch” of the Russian humanistic science fiction from them.
His works have been published since the 1980s, and thanks to Lukyanenko, the genre survived the collapse of the Soviet Union and the turbulent decades that followed. In fact, …
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6 Feb 2026, 09:50 UTC171 views9 reactionsread 21 August 2026 Dostoyevsky was not a wealthy man. Unlike Tolstoy or Turgenev, he had to live by his pen. Dostoyevsky aggravated his circumstances by gambling. He sometimes borrowed money from wealthy acquaintances, then lost money at the gambling table, and avoided his creditors until the necessary sum could be accumulated.
⁉️When asked if he was envious of Leo Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky once replied that he was, in fact, envious, but n…
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4 Feb 2026, 06:19 UTC182 views10 reactionsread 21 August 2026 Photo
It’s just a famous meme with Hollywood actor Orlando Bloom reading Dostoyevsky. Never fails to make me smile 😀
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2 Feb 2026, 07:49 UTC191 views7 reactionsread 21 August 2026 ⭐️On this day, 83 years ago, the Battle of Stalingrad ended with the victory of the Soviet Army. It was one of the largest urban battles in world’s military history, and a turning point of the Great Patriotic War.
Nazi Germans and their allies had invaded as deep into the Soviet territory as Stalingrad on the Volga (today Volgograd) by the Summer of 1942. And in winter 1943 they were turned around to be finally push…
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1 Feb 2026, 09:41 UTC251 views12 reactionsread 21 August 2026 Photo
Despite being contemporaries and compatriots, Theodore Dostoyevsky and Leo Tolstoy never met each other personally.
They certainly knew about each other, read each other’s works and expressed opinions on them - but never got to actually meet and have a conversation. There were periods when they lived within the same part of Saint Petersburg, had mutual acquaintances, and yet…
When it was too late - when Dostoyevsky…
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29 Jan 2026, 10:01 UTC198 views5 reactionsread 21 August 2026 🥂29 January 1860 is the birthday of Anton Chekhov. Let us commemorate it by watching «Uncle Vanya» - a screen adaptation of the play, unhurried, thorough, masterful. Chekhov shows a collection of «radiant» persons - «radiant to no one».
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29 Jan 2026, 07:12 UTC188 views4 reactionsread 21 August 2026 Photo
The last decades of the 19th century were the period of industrial development in Russia, as in many other countries. Coal-mining for the new railway transport, gold-mining, extraction of ore gems were on the rise.
☝️The folk tales about miners and stonemasons from the previous post spring from that period (Pavel Bazhov collected and adapted the tales for publication in the 1930s).
A wealthy Russian merchant, indus…
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27 Jan 2026, 11:55 UTC173 views5 reactionsread 21 August 2026 ⛰🦎🐍🦌💎Pavel Bazhov, Russian writer and folklorist, was born on 27 January 1879.
He is best known for his collection of folk tales, The Malachite Box.
Why is the book remarkable? 1️⃣ It offers a different side of the Russian folklore - one without «bogatyrs», «Baba Yaga», «the Immortal Koschei», or the customary pictures of nature typical of the European part of Russia. Here, in The Malachite Box, the magic creatures…
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25 Jan 2026, 11:50 UTC240 views5 reactionsread 21 August 2026 Photo
☝️3️⃣ The third mention is Tatiana from The Malachite Box by Pavel Bazhov. The book published in 1939 is a collection of tales of the Ural region. The tales are about stonemasons and gold prospectors, the beauties and riches of the Ural mountains, the life of local serfs in the bonds of injustice.
Tanya is the daughter of a stonemason who strives for perfection in his work: his ambition is to make a flower out of st…
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