Art & Culture

Russians are often perceived as cold, distant, and unsmiling – or at best, reserved. Maybe…

Russian and Ukrainian folk arts are rooted in and reflective of the cultural life and…

Petrykivka decorative painting is a traditional Ukrainian folk painting style that has played a spiritual…

The traditional Ukrainian wardrobe was a far cry from today’s red-rose-and-leopard print spandex and ostentatious,…

The Ukrainian embroidery tradition has its roots in pagan beliefs of protection and ritual. Ukrainian…

У Лукоморья – By the Bay – is the prologue to the epic poem Ruslan and…

Another famous poem by poet/heartthrob Alexander Pushkin is The Tale of Tsar Saltan, or in…

“The Mistress of the Copper Mountain” (Russian: Медной горы хозяйка) is a folk tale (the…

In the Cabin on Chicken Legs lives Baba Yaga, an old Russian witch with magic…

There is a very famous Russian folk story for very small children – Ryaba the…