Semyon Ivanovich Dezhnev Born 1605, Veliki Ustyug, Russia Died c. 1673, Moscow, Russia From the time the Russian people formed a state in the ninth century, they steadily expanded their empire eastward, across the vast northern lands of Siberia, toward...

c. 1605-1673 Russian explorer who discovered the Bering Strait, but whose discovery did not become widely known until after the time of Vitus Bering (1681-1741). A Cossack, Dezhnyov—sometimes rendered as Dezhnev—explored Siberia in the...

In 1728 Vitus Bering (1681-1741) discovered the strait that bears his name, a body of water just 53 miles (85 kilometers) wide at its narrowest point, which separates the Asian and North American land masses. But Bering was not the first European to...

Semyon (Semнon, Semion, Simon) Ivanovich Dezhnev (Russian: Семён Ива́нович Дежнёв; circa 1605–1673) was a Russian explorer who in 1648 led the expedition that doubled the known extent of the easternmost promontory of the...

Prokofiev's Semyon Kotko is the latest in Valery Gergiev's awe-inspiring series of Russian operas with the Kirov Chorus and Orchestra. PROKOFIEV: Semyon Kotko * Pavlovskaya, Solovieva, Savova, Filatova, Markova-Mikhailenko; Lutsiuk, Akimov, Bezzubenkov, Chernomortsev, Nikitin, Karasev, Gassiev, Laptev; Kirov Chorus and Orchestra, Gergiev....

NEWTON When introduced in "Busting Vegas," Ben Mezrich's bestseller about a renegade band of MIT blackjack players who made millions outwitting casino dealers in the 1990s, Semyon Dukach is in full James Bond mode, hobbling toward a burning airplane to retrieve a bundle of...