You may have heard of the heavy snowfalls that came down on Moscow in the last few days. While such snowfalls usually play a few tricks with the appearances of people and buildings, this year’s ...
Not long after I came back from Tarusa a chain of various events ensued, mostly pleasant. I attended the opening of two exhibitions at the Central House of the Artist and previewed the other two there...
Perhaps there is no better way to eventually visit a city than to start learning about upcoming events. So, in a hope to finally visit St. Petersburg I’d like to post here provisional list of ex...
View my profile Create your own travel map. http://www.tripadvisor.com/MemberTravelMap?a=EMBED&mode=js&id=g23DAAAC63B5AB75C1340DB03D41EA9CD&want=map I mentioned before that I criss-crossed...
Einstein with a coffee mug (courtesy of Elevatorbob) A poem Einstein Among the Coffee Cups by Louis Untermeyer (1885-1976) was included in his Collected Parodies (1926). An American poet, translator, ...
A small town in Kaluga Region scattered along the Oka River, Tarusa has long been loved by the creative folk. The Tsvetaev family used to live here, including Marina Tsvetaeva; their house museum is o...
Those sleepless nights when ceiling is like a sky, Heavy with floods of never ending thoughts, Hiding the long-forgotten thunderbolts Of memories and regrets that never die – Those sleepless nig...
By way of tradition, I’m about to wish all of us a very happy new year ahead. It’s got to be good now that we survived the End of the World frenzy, don’t you think? My 2012 has been ...
I don’t really now how many cats Francesco Petrarca had in his lifetime. Neither do I know much about the cat that was embalmed and put to stay in his house-museum in Italy. I did read his lette...
This is the poem I shall be working on translating, most likely, in 2013. 2012 has resulted in a few good translations of poems, as well as some prose pieces. Among them – translations from Robe...