Posted on June 20, 2018 2:26 pm
Published by hradmin
by Helen Rappaport
For the Romanov family at the Ipatiev House, Tuesday, 16 July, in Ekaterinburg was much like any other day, punctuated by the same frugal meals, brief periods of recreation in the garden, reading, and games of cards. … Read the article
Posted on October 10, 2017 11:52 am
Published by hradmin
by Tasha Alexander
While the principal characters in Death in St. Petersburg are fictional, there are a handful in supporting roles (beyond Nicholas II and his wife, Alexandra) who were real.… Read the article
Posted on February 17, 2017 3:36 pm
Published by hradmin
by Helen Rappaport
It began many years ago – around twenty, if I recall correctly, when I visited a dusty and cluttered second-hand book shop in Burford in the Cotswolds. ‘Have you got any old books about Russia?’, I … Read the article
Posted on January 6, 2017 2:45 pm
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By Lisa Dickey
The first time I traveled across Russia, in the fall of 1995, most people I met seemed to love Americans. The Soviet Union had collapsed four years earlier, leading to an abrupt thaw in the Cold War. … Read the article
Posted on January 13, 2016 10:02 pm
Published by hradmin
by Vanora Bennett
Jews Under Russian Rule
One of the things that struck me most about Russia in the 1990s, when I was working in Moscow, was how quickly people’s fear of the unknown turned into violent suspicions of other … Read the article
Posted on April 10, 2015 8:39 pm
Published by Alastair Hayes
by Stanley Meisler
The mass migrations of European peoples to this country in the late 19th and 20th centuries have become such clichéd events in American history that we often forget that the United States was not the only refuge … Read the article
Posted on June 2, 2014 3:26 pm
Published by Joanie Martinez
By Helen Rappaport
What more is there possibly to know, you may ask, about the Romanov sisters—beyond the familiar image of four pretty girls in white dresses and big picture hats? It’s a perennial question, and one to which the … Read the article