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…
War and Peace gets 2016 off to a great start! I couldn't be more excited about the upcoming drama series of Tolstoy's War and Peace, which starts on January 3,…
The addition of my beloved Russian smoked salmon to these fishcakes takes them from a drab Wednesday night stopgap to the opening salvo of an elegant Saturday night dinner.
Here’s one of the great unsolved mysteries of the universe: Why does the Alumni Magazine get through the floundering Russian postal system with a regularity you can set your clock…