That all changed in the summer of 1941, when the Second World War hit our snowy streets. Slowly, food became a luxury...

A patient of mine, a World War II veteran, sat in front of me on the examination table. I made a note in his health card and suggested...

I do not want to drag you into historical facts. I want to tell you about the adventures of a boy who cheated death. So, let me take you...

I did not come into a perfectly happy world upon my birth in 1883. My mother had always blamed my father for disappearing into his dirty...

The revolutions started a few years later, leading to the collapse of the Soviet empire and the rise of the Russian Federation. The early...