On the morning of Dec. 26, 1825, a group of Russian military officers supported by 3,000 soldiers gathered in Senate Square in the heart of St. Petersburg. They had assembled to force the government ...
The Russian Revolution happened over 100 years ago, at the tail end of World War I. After centuries of being ruled by a sprawling empire governed by the Romanov family, combined with the devastating ...
The radical politics of Russian literature’s most famous English translator, Constance Garnett. By Jennifer Wilson Jennifer Wilson, a contributing essayist at the Book Review, has a Ph.D. in Russian ...