Category: Life

Viktor Nordenskiöld’s “The Eukrainian,” a documentary about Ukraine’s quest for European Union membership, uses the bloc’s diplomatic negotiations and bureaucracy as the backdrop for a story with life-or-death…

AMSTERDAM — A tsar, who rose to the throne through the murder of a young heir, is asked to stay in power by an impoverished populace for the sake of their nation’s stability. 

Yet haunted by the ghosts of his past, he descends…

“Am I a trembling creature, or do I have the right?” are the oft-quoted words of Rodion Raskolnikov, the protagonist in Dostoevsky’s “Crime and Punishment.” In the novel, Raskolnikov murders an old pawnbroker and her sister to…

In the wake of the Ottoman Empire’s crushing defeat in the Russo-Turkish War of 1768–74, one senior Turkish diplomat placed the blame squarely on the Empire’s Crimean Tatar allies. In his memoirs, he described them as having…

In “Our Dear Friends in Moscow. The Inside Story of a Broken Generation,” journalists Irina Borogan and Andrei Soldatov set out to understand how some of their fellow journalists in Russia came to accept wholeheartedly the actions…

The Pushkin House spoke with author, comedian, TV and radio presenter Viv Groskop, who is among other accomplishments is a specialist in the Soviet Union and successor states. She talks about her latest book, “One Ukrainian Summer”…

Benjamin Nathans is the Alan Charles Kors Associate Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania and the author of the award-winning books, “Beyond the Pale: The Jewish Encounter with Late Imperial Russia” and “To the…