In “The Oak and the Larch,” Sophie Pinkham examines a vast history and culture through the branches of its ancient trees.

Sophie Pinkham’s “The Oak and the Larch” traces how Russian history and literature have shaped – and been shaped by – its deep forests.

Sophie Pinkham’s “The Oak and the Larch” is an inventive study of Russia’s cultural practices and its reigning mythologies ...

Russian museum websites and online collections have portrayed Ukraine, its history, and culture as inseparable from Russia. Credit: University of Exeter Russian museum websites and online collections ...

IT WAS A wintry night in St Petersburg and revolution was in the air. A piercing wind whipped off the frozen Neva river as, before dawn, the conspirators hurried to Senate Square, close to the Winter ...

A new book written by Russian-American writer Julia Ioffe confronts the forgotten narratives of the women who stood alongside some of Russia’s most well-known male leaders. Ioffe joins Michel Martin ...

To read Julia Ioffe’s new book, “Motherland: A Feminist History of Modern Russia, from Revolution to Autocracy” is to take a rambling ride — or a crash course if this is new territory — through the ...