The 2,300-mile Mother Volga, a river of history, folklore, song and art, is far more than Europe’s longest waterway. Like the Mississippi in America, it defines Russia’s spiritual heartland.

From the monasteries immersed in the Taiga forests, to the cities suspended between ancient and modern—the journey across the Volga River recounts ...

Traffic on the Volga, Europe’s longest river, has rebounded sharply in the past two years, as we learned on a recent two-week cruise from Moscow to St. Petersburg.

From the River Port at St. Naberezhnaya Kosmonavtov 7a it is possible to take a cruise as far south as Astrakhan, as far north as St. Petersburg and all major cities on the Volga River, as well as ...

Kicked off on Friday and running until July 26, the art exhibition Echoes from the Volga River: Masterpieces of the Peredvizhniki from the Tretyakov Gallery is bringing 53 masterpieces by 35 ...

Art and literature depicted but also relieved the woes. The Volga—tranquil and picturesque, yet also magnificent and powerful—was a wellspring of early 19th-century Romanticism.

Hartley’s chronological narrative, rich in vivid detail, begins over 1,000 years ago, when the principality of Kievan Rus vied with the Khazar Khaganate and the Bulgars for the lucrative trade on the ...

Steeped in folklore, legend and the ever-changing beauty of nature along the river’s banks, “A Volga Tale” nonetheless hauls its archetypal characters out of fairyland and into the 20th ...

FAYETTE -- Twenty years ago, John Siblik was an art school student forced to take a weaving class. Not a promising introduction. Artist spearheads Volga River weaving project ...

Although river cruises between Moscow and St Petersburg feature the Volga, they sail only a short stretch of it, in addition to the Moscow Canal, Volga-Baltic Waterway, Svir and Neva rivers and ...