Historian and architectural expert William Brumfield discovers one of the most remarkable sites in the Russian north. Great Solovetsky Island. Transfiguration Monastery. Northwest view from ...

At the beginning of the 20th century, the Russian chemist and photographer Sergei Prokudin-Gorsky invented a complex process for vivid, detailed color photography (see box text below). Inspired to use ...

The archipelago's first known Russian settlement dates from 1429 when the monk Zosima joined forces with Herman, an illiterate hermit who had periodically visited Solovetsky Island. The elderly Zosima ...

On August 17, 2014, the 10th Sunday after Pentecost, His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia celebrated a Divine Liturgy at the Church of Crucifixion of the Lord of the Golgotha ...

When you look up "Volga tours" on the Internet, most advertise a quick St. Petersburg-to-Moscow trip, though technically neither city is on the Volga. But the Volga is more than a river. It is an ...

It took nine days in unheated train carriages for the first Soviet prisoners to get from Moscow to Solovki – the infamous forced labour camp on the Solovetsky Islands, a small archipelago isolated ...