Dmitri Hvorostovsky sang Russian love songs Tuesday evening to a packed house at the Music Center at Strathmore, presenting a taste of the country's vocal tradition. But on another level, the ...

Though Paul McCartney only visited Russia for the first time in 2003 when he played a sell-out concert on Red Square, he wrote one of the Beatles' most famous songs back in 1968.

Beautifully orchestrated with Russian accordions and jazzy brass, this crooning love letter to the singer’s birthplace Odessa (Ukraine) became the unofficial anthem of this spectacular seaside city.