An American ballerina was charged with treason in Russia for donating $51.80 to a Ukrainian charity.
Karelina, an amateur ballerina, was born in Russia but reportedly obtained US citizenship by marrying an American and moving to Los Angeles, where she worked in a spa. Investigators brought the treason charge after discovering by searching her mobile phone that she ma...
In the mid-1840s he wrote his first novel, Poor Folk, which gained him entry into St. Petersburg's literary circles. Arrested in 1849 for belonging to a literary group that discussed banned books critical of Tsarist Russia, he was sentenced to death but the sentence was commuted at the ...
Russia has produced some very talented actors and actresses in the last century, many of who have gone on to star in comedies, dramas, horror movies and more. These Russian actors specialize in film, television or even theater, so they're not all necessarily movie stars. These are some of...
She had returned to Russia to visit her family. From the archives (March 2024): About that dual-citizen ballerina from L.A. charged with treason in Putin’s Russia She reportedly had her phone confiscated after arriving in Yekaterinburg in January and police found evidence on the...
Karelina went back to Russia in January to visit her 90-year-old grandmother. She was arrested and paraded in front of cameras after authorities searched her Venmo account and discovered a donation she made to a charity helping Ukrainians ravaged by war. ...
Lenin’s office inside the former mansion of the ballerina Matilda Kshesinskaya is preserved as a part of the Museum of Russian Political History.Olga Ingurazova Making his ascension to the pantheon complete, Lenin then went out in front of the station and gave a speech from atop an armored...
Portrait of the ballerina Alexandra Balashova, 1923 Filipp Malyavin In 1922, the artist left Russia forever. He settled in Paris, then in Nice. Malyavin painted portraits to order. His exhibitions were held in the Parisian Charpentier Gallery and the Prague exhibition pavilion Myslbek. ...
“We work like oxen in Russia. We rarely have a day off. But now no one wants us. We were simply thrown out like an unnecessary burden. Why are things this way? Help us!” Farukh complained to Ibragimova. Farukh also made a video of how people ended up on the street in the wee ...
the mansion of ballerinaMathilde Kschessinska(currently, the Museum of Political History), where Lenin read out his so-called April Theses (“The Tasks of the Proletariat in the Present Revolution”) after returning from exile in Switzerland; the Peter and Paul Fortress, which housed many politi...