Aleksei Ivashchenko and Georgi Vasilyev (b. 1957, a bank director now) are the wittiest and so the youth favourite Russian bards known as "Gosha and Lyosha" in 1980's and as "Ivasi" in 1990's. Aleksei ...

As a native of St. Petersburg, Polenov grew up in a wealthy, intellectual and artistic family. During his teenage years, in 1860s, Russia was energized by great minds promoting virtues of democracy, ...