Their muse is the taiga, or boreal forest ... also known as the “tsar of the forest,” said his landscapes portrayed “Russian wealth.” To accompany the paintings in “Northern Lights ...

Russia accounts for about 20% of the world’s forests. Its vast boreal forests in Siberia help store immense amounts of carbon Brazil’s Amazon rainforest, covering around 497 million hectares ...

A "Russian barbarian ... firefighters who jump from planes and rappel from helicopters, cover a swath of boreal forest that stretches from Arctic tundra to the Mongolian border.