Paris 2013 – Basilique du Sacre Coeur, originally uploaded by loscuadernosdejulia. A year ago I finally reached Paris. I didn’t have much time so I chose to focus on a few sites, Sacre Coe...
A prominent 20th century psychologist Viktor Frankl was a survivor of Holocaust. He spent years in several concentration camps, and in each and every one of them he was able to continue his doctoral a...
I discovered Gladys Knight around 2005 on a free soul CD that came with a Sunday paper. It was Midnight Train to Georgia which I loved for the intensity, the powerful vocals, and the rather unusual ma...
As we know, the first time Russia got to host the Olympic Games was in 1980. Turns out, at home we’ve got quite a collection of the Olympic memorabilia, which I’ve now collated into a PDF ...
I was born in the year when Russia (then the USSR) hosted its first ever Olympic Games. And I know about the scandal that surrounded the Games. I successfully celebrated the opening in front of the te...
It was absolutely normal for me to read “beyond my age”, so to say. When I was seven, I read Oscar Wilde’s tales, Voynich’s Gadfly, and the ancient myths. The book in Russian t...
Although I’ve got fairly wide-ranging music interests, I was successfully, if distantly, brought up as a rock’n’roll person by my father. I came to love many music styles, but everyt...