Tag: Russian

  • Nation & World

    As Europe’s economic picture brightens, new threats emerge

    Europe’s economic recovery is well underway, but the EU faces serious new threats, foreign policy experts said at a Harvard Summit in November.

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Language of learning

    With a culturally diverse student body and more than 80 languages and several hundred courses available for study, Harvard’s commitment is unmatched nationally.

    9 minutes
  • Nation & World

    After 78 years at Harvard, Danilov Bells will return to Russia

    After 78 years of refuge at Harvard University, iconic Russian bells saved from Stalinist efforts to eradicate religious artifacts will return permanently this summer to their one-time home, the Danilov Monastery in Moscow.

    6 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Reminiscences of Maxim Gorky

    In 1895, Russian journalist Alexei Maximovich Peshkov, a onetime shoemaker’s apprentice who had quit school at 10, adopted a new name: Maxim Gorky. After that, literary fame came fast and furious for this self-taught, fresh-voiced grandson of a Volga boatman. Gorky — the name means “bitter” — could tell a story, remember everything he read…

    6 minutes