On February 8, 1837, in St. Petersburg, Georges d’Anthès fought a duel with Alexander Pushkin, whom he shot in the stomach. Pushkin died two days later on his sofa. So … what happened to the sofa?

Malcom Gladwell’s podcasting and audiobook company Pushkin Industries has voluntarily recognized its workers’ union. Staffers at the cash-strapped company — which recently laid off dozens of employees ...

To me the publication of Yarmolinsky’s introduction and Babette Deutsch’s translations of Pushkin, on the occasion of his centenary, is a calamity both in literature and in our cultural relations with ...

TALLINN, ESTONIA — A Belarusian artist who once dumped manure outside an office of President Alexander Lukashenko has died in a prison, where he was serving a five-year sentence, human rights ...

On the eve of Alexander Pushkin's birthday RBTH's Phoebe Taplin conveys four scenes from the life and death of Russia’s greatest poet. The creator of Russian literature as we know it was born 213 ...

Three remote estates in Pskov Region aren’t your obvious tourist destinations but we bet you won’t regret a single minute spent in this picturesque area. Alexander Pushkin may not be as popular ...

The 12-person union at the 'Revisionist History' production company negotiated a salary floor of $73,000 and mandatory IP negotiation for certain shows. By Katie Kilkenny Enterprise Reporter, TV & ...

I am going to the opera tonight, to see Bizet’s “Carmen,” which the Met expects to be its most viewed—via live HD telecast—production yet. Some three hundred and twenty thousand people will have seen ...

Two great obstacles confront the non-Russian speaking reader when reading Pushkin. The first, famously, concerns his language. Many is the reader who, after reading a few of his more Byronic poems, or ...

Gracefully, her narrow waist embraced in a tight corset, layers of skirts rustling behind her on the floor, Natalya Pushkina entered the room. Instead of her cousin, whom she believed was expecting ...

It was only a century ago that Russia was the center of world literature. Writers streamed from all over the world to Yasnaya Polyana to bow before Tolstoy, like pilgrims to Jerusalem. And in Russia ...