Do you know the answer to the question in the post’s title? I bet you don’t even guess what the answer is. You may rest assured, though, that on this side of Europe nothing is what youR...
Julia and the yellow Porsche GUM, which is short from Glavnyi Universalnyi Magazin, is the oldest and the largest department store in the capital. Having started long before the 19th c. as the trading...
A few days ago I had an email from the guys who offered to share their infographic with my readers, to gauge your opinion on a kind of sensitive issue. We all know about the wealthy and the poor divid...
Last Friday I attended a press-conference at the RIA Novosti agency in Moscow, after which I thought I’d try to shoot a video on a bridge across the Moskva River. I tried it in colour, but event...
Samuel J. Peploe – The Pink Dress. A Study of a Burmese Girl I am reading a book by the famous Soviet writer and translator, Kornei Chukovsky. Among other things, he translated Walt Whitman into...
In 2009, The Telegraph shared photos of dogs groomed beyond recognition by their masters. I blogged some photos in the article Poodle Who? A Kitsch Touch to Creative Grooming. A few years later I came...
The Bolshoi Theatre, 6.30pm How do you photograph the Bolshoi Theatre so it looks different? In my case yesterday I only had to visit the Russian Youth Theatre in Teatralnaya Square to find a new comp...
The Russian tradition of bell ringing is rich and famous worldwide; however, it is not always that you get to listen to the melody, let alone stop and contemplate it.The video in the post was filmed i...
Dostoevskaya, Moscow Metro Dostoevskaya metro station has been in operation since June 19, 2010. The 181st station of the Moscow Underground is among the youngest, but did its best in paying hommage t...
I was listening to a piano vistuoso Vyacheslav Ganelin before I was born. My parents went to the concert of the Ganelin Trio, which in 1980 consisted of Ganelin, Vladimir Tarasov (saxophone) and Vladi...