Private Vasily said he had survived by lying in the birch forest near the Russian border for three days, covered in branches ...

The highlight of this railway journey is, without a doubt, the birch forests. In fact, one could say that traveling through Russia is essentially a journey to see birch trees. Birch trees have an ...

In 1951, archaeologists in Novgorod discovered the first Old Russian birch-bark texts, and more than 1,200 of them have been found to date. Before the availability of paper, soft birch bark was ...