Since the 1960s, the central Russian town of Suzdal, with its beautiful location and rich concentration of historic monuments, has been one of the country’s most popular destinations for heritage ...

Here you will find the quintessential Russia, humming with churches, wooden huts, festivals, and the most traditional of traditional Russian cuisine. How to get there: to Vladimir by fast train (1h 40 ...

These two artistic centres in central Russia hold an important place in the country's architectural history. There are a number of magnificent 12th- and 13th-century public and religious buildings, ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... A sea of humanity surged forward at the train station in Moscow, pushing me away from the ticket window. I was losing ground, fighting a crowd of people who ...

A sea of humanity surged forward at the train station in Moscow, pushing me away from the ticket window. I was losing ground, fighting a crowd of people who’d survived both the slog of Soviet ...

Suzdal doesn’t boast the ornate grandeur of Moscow’s metro stations or the secretive bunkers of the Soviets. Nor does it feature the opulent remnants of the Tsars as in Saint Petersburg. What it ...

“Why do you want to go to Russia? What is the urgency?” The visa officer waved the urgent visa application in my face. It was a moment of sheer wanderlust when we decided to travel to Russia. We had ...

These two artistic centres in central Russia hold an important place in the country's architectural history. There are a number of magnificent 12th- and 13th-century public and religious buildings, ...