South Coast Repertory and HFP LIVE will present pianist/actor/playwright/producer Hershey Felder, for a strictly limited engagement of Rachmaninoff and the Tsar.
NPR's Scott Simon asks Robert Littell about Leon Trotsky's time living in the Bronx. Littell is the author of "Bronshtein in the Bronx." ...
The different target audiences led to the siddurim being printed in two versions: while the siddurim for olim from the Soviet Union contained the Israeli national prayers, those sent through various c ...
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Kolchak & Russia's Civil War
Following the Bolshevik Revolution, Russia is engulfed in a gigantic civil war. Lenin and the Reds hope to forge a new Soviet empire. His enemies, the Whites, look to their new leader Admiral ...
On its 100th anniversary, Horrible Histories takes a look at the Russian Revolution. Tsar Nicholas II gives tips for survival in Russia's extreme climate, and we reveal that Lenin's European Communism ...
Romanov: Czar of Hearts documents the rise and the fall - and, when that fall came, it was always going to be dramatic. The money ran out, the debt soared and Romanov did a runner.
Is he living in Nikul'skaya, a village in north-west Russia, as was reported a while ... a nine-parter on BBC Sounds. Romanov: Czar of Hearts is coming, the first three episodes landing on Saturday.
With construction starting in 1981, tens of thousands of workers spent years building the world's longest single rail system ...
His years illustrating pulp novels honed his sense of pictorial drama, and his meticulous research ensured historical ...