Source: The State Russian museum, St. Petersburg. By the middle of the 19th century, balls were widely arranged not only in Petersburg and Moscow, where thousands were held every year, but in ...

The longest railroad in the world, Russia's Trans-Siberian Railway has connected the country east to west for over 100 years, ...

Alexei Ratmansky’s “Paquita” brings Marius Petipa’s 19th-century style to New York City Ballet through two lenses: his own and George Balanchine’s.

The department has a longstanding expertise in Soviet cinema and writing, memory and trauma in 20th Russia, and 19th century literature and culture, with seminal studies on Dziga Vertov and films of ...