Geoffrey Chaucer To the majority of readers Geoffrey Chaucer is known as the author The Canterbury Tales and Troilus and Cressida. But there were smaller poems he composed, and here come the two of th...
Tomorrow Russia and a few like-minded countries celebrate the International Women’s Day. I wrote a post on this earlier. Some countries, like the UK, celebrate Mother’s Day, hence there wi...
At the end of January I attended the last concert in a series of three dedicated to the sixtieth anniversary of one of the world’s finest violists and certainly Russia’s greatest viola tal...
Betty Trummel of Science Roadshow blog is currently visiting Antarctica (!), but her friend and colleague Jean Pennycook has finished her research season at Cape Royds and shared some photos from the ...
For me the subject of the picture is always more important than the picture. And more complicated. – Diane Arbus. Человеку дарована лишь одна радость – ощущение жизни, когда она достигает ...
Отсутствие исторического чувства есть наследственный недостаток всех философов. – Ф. Ницше You may be able to convince me that I am wrong, but you cannot tell me that I am wrong without convinci...
It takes a great deal to make a successful American, but to make a happy Venetian takes only a handful of quick sensibility. – Henry James Кто не знает иностранных языков, тот не имеет понятия о...
The very first matryoshka doll was made and painted to the sketches of the painter S. Malyutin by V. Zvezdochkin, a remarkable craftsman of the late 19th c. It consisted of an eight-piece nest and dep...
Leonid Gaidai was born on January 30, 1923. Although he died in 1993, in his life-long career he produced many a wonderful Soviet comedy, from rom-coms (Adbuction in the Caucasus) to sharp satirical f...
The town and vicinity of Tarusa are well-known for the love that great Russian artists, musicians, and writers had for it. I mentioned previously that Marina Tsvetaeva, Konstantin Paustovsky, Viktor B...