A comprehensive and searchable collection of images , more or less heroic, chiefly from Mongolia, but also from China and Iran. Collected by...

According to the YouTube poster, this was in the movie "Вчера, сегодня и всегда" in 1969, but according to web searches that movie...

This topic was suggested to us by a reader. I had seen some of Prokudin-Gorskii's fascinating photographs before, but I hadn't reali...

Krupenichka , originally uploaded by punalippu . Interesting tidbit of trivia about Russian ethnic jokes: Totally invented accusations in th...

Today, March 8th, is International Women's Day. It was originally - and still is in many parts of the world - a political holiday to com...

Thanks to the blog Moscow Through Brown Eyes , I was inspired to dig up some nice photos of American poet Langston Hughes' travels in ea...

Moscow Through Brown Eyes is a blog by "Buster", a graduate student and former Moscow resident, who combines experiences as an Af...