Who was the novelist who wrote about Russia in the 1800s?
Who was a classical composer?
What was an elegant Russian city founded by Peter the Great?
What are the customs and practices that are passed down from one generation to the next?
What means to put down?
What is the spread of ideas designed to support some cause?
What is Russia's major ethnic group?
The Russian government has given smaller ethnic groups the right to rule themselves, but it has repressed independence movements.
Russia has a long history of great artists ans writers. But under the Soviet government the only form of artistic expression allowed was in the form of propaganda.
Once communism ended, the Russian people refused to return to their artistic traditions.