Butterfly hunting was a popular sport among Russian intellectuals in the early- to mid-twentieth century, and enthusiasts were often referred to as "fly doctors."
Adoration of India and its spiritual culture was not unusual among Russian intellectuals of the time.
It's a question that much troubled Russian intellectuals in the late 19th century, during Mussorgsky's life.
These are some of the "accursed questions" that haunted Russian intellectuals (and sometimes became the titles of their books) throughout the 19th century.
It is a tradition of Russian intellectuals to do the righteous thing even if it makes no strategic sense.
He spent 1941-45 in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, where most Russian intellectuals were kept safe during the war.
Atmospheric restaurant that resembles the sitting room of a 19th-century Russian intellectual.
About nine Russian intellectuals or artists investigated the religion more or less.
"It keeps Russian intellectuals from thinking we are all a nation of flagpole-sitters."
He was unlike most of the other Russian intellectuals of the 1830s and 1840s.