As winter slowly approached in Russia’s Nizhny Novgorod region, the trees along the River Volga began to change colour.

Nowhere is the Volga River more hallowed than in the city named after it: Volgograd, better known to history as Stalingrad. During World War II, perhaps the bloodiest battle in history took place ...

In Russia, the iconic Volga River, which is the country's largest waterway for shipping, has experienced a huge drop in water levels brought on by the warming climate. Higher levels of pollution, mass ...

The tumults of the Russian Revolution are recounted in Yakhina’s laborious epic of a German-speaking Soviet republic (after Zuleikha). In the 1910s, schoolteacher Jakob Bach is a citizen of Gnadenthal ...