Egor Yakovlev

Egor Yakovlev10.01.2026

Russian and Soviet theater director, teacher, and founder of the Moscow Art Theater, Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko, was born on December 23, 1858. Nemirovich-Danchenko became fascinated with theater while still in high school. He set up a “windowsill theater” in his room. The young director assembled a troupe of actors from playing cards: kings, jacks, and queens. […]

Egor Yakovlev27.04.2025

April 25, 1883 Marshal Semyon Mikhailovich Budyonny was born one of the first marshals of the Soviet Union, three times Hero of the Soviet Union, holder of the St. George Cross of all degrees. Semyon Budyonny came from a poor peasant family. He was born in the territory of the Don Host (now Rostov Oblast). […]

Egor Yakovlev09.02.2025

Sergio Leone’s ‘900 Days’ — The Story of a Grand Project on the Siege of Leningrad. Sergio Leone, the author of the best Western films in history, was not very popular in the USSR. Soviet film critics criticized the Italian director for the aestheticization of violence, caustic irony and the lack of a moral compass […]

Egor Yakovlev03.02.2025

On April 30, 1945, street fighting was at its height in Nazi Berlin. Soviet troops were preparing to storm the Tiergarten district, which was defended by the SS. Both soldiers and civilians were dying in the bloody meat grinder in the center of the densely populated city. On this day, Red Army sergeant Nikolai Masalov, […]

Egor Yakovlev16.01.2025

“Married the woman he loved, wrote a great play, died in battle“, – Pushkin wrote about Griboyedov’s enviable fate. Russian writer, playwright, linguist, historian and orientalist, author of the play “Woe from Wit”, Alexander Sergeevich Griboyedov was born 230 years ago. A vivid description of Griboyedov was given by his contemporary Alexander Pushkin. In “Journey […]

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Revolutionary of Russian Theater: Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko

About the Revolution Hero And Marshal Budyonny

Sergio Leone’s ‘900 Days’

Prototype on the Liberator Soldier monument in Berlin

Pushkin on Life and Death of Griboyedov

Will the American Civil War Start in Minnesota?

Revolutionary of Russian Theater: Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko

In Search of Ikigai

Russophobia as a “Sacred Mission” of the Nazis