Ignat Avsey, who has died of cancer aged 75, was a distinguished translator from Russian. He breathed new life into not only two of Dostoevsky's best-known novels (The Karamazov Brothers and The Idiot ...

The Siberian composer and sound artist Dmitri Mazurov has left a notable imprint on his homeland's artistic landscape with his creativity spanning a wide range of genres: from new music and ...

When the doorbell to Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's Moscow apartment rang on February 12, 1974, his wife, Natalia, cracked open the door to see who was outside. Realizing it was the KGB, she immediately ...

Dr. Oana Ignat is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Santa Clara University. She earned her Ph.D. and completed her postdoctoral training in Computer ...

Pianist and conductor Ignat Solzhenitsyn reflects on growing up in exile as the son of Nobel laureate Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, moving from Soviet persecution to a quiet childhood in rural Vermont.