Home lovers, history buffs and the curious will find glasnost can have a personal touch, with a rare pictorial visit to Russian country homes in the May issue of House Beautiful. Shot last August ...

In a country house outside Moscow, for a couple who work in the pharmaceuticals industry and their 20-year-old daughter, he was challenged to create that palpable sense of history in a home built ...

The stove was also the place where domovoi, a Russian house-spirit, ... Only in the second half of the 20th century, bed blankets appeared in all Russian country houses.

The Russian foreign ministry said “hundreds” of American diplomatic staff members will have to leave the country by Sept. 1 in order to bring down the number of Americans stationed in Russia ...

The Russian countryside was once dotted with estate houses that belonged to the gentry and prosperous merchants. Most of the houses were built of wood and modest in size and appearance, such as ...

Within the 4,800 square meters of floor space set aside at this year’s Frankfurt Book Fair for exhibits from Russia -- 2003’s “Country of Honor” at the “world’s largest gathering of ...