Delve into the rich history of Riga, Europe's best-kept secret!
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Join me for a fascinating discussion of Romanian cuisine with author and chef Irina Georgescu about her new book, "Carpathia: Food from the Heart of Romania."
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I sat down with Olga Zilberbourg about her new collection of short stories, "Like Water and Other Stories."
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A conversation with Professor Michael Khodarkovsky about his new book, Russia's 20th Century: a fresh look at the arc of Soviet history.
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A conversation with Gill Paul about her latest historical novel and Romanov alternative history. In The Lost Daughter, Paul explores the possibility of Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna’s possible escape from Yekaterinburg.
While the Russian Revolutions claimed many Romanov victims, Dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna, the mother of Nicholas II, famously survived. The life of this fascinating woman, born a Danish princess, is…
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Culinary historian, Veronika Hinke’s new book, The Last Night on the Titanic, Unsinkable Drinking, Dining, and Style is a celebration of the ethos of the Titanic through the magnificent food…
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In Caroline Boggis-Rolfe's authoritative The Baltic Story, we meet pirates, princes, and prelates. While much divides the Slavs, Balts, Saxons, Poles, and Scandinavian peoples, much also unites them: rugged individualism…
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Far far away, behind the word mountains, far from the countries Vokalia and Consonantia, there live the blind texts. Separated they live in Bookmarksgrove right at the coast of the…
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If you relish cooking what’s in season, spring is the happiest time! With all this springtime bounty, and because it’s not yet so hot that cooking anything apart from gazpacho…
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