Pablo Picasso, Portrait of Guillaume Apollinaire Toujours À Madame Faure-Favier Toujours Nous irons plus loin sans avancer jamais Et de planète en planète De nébuleuse en nébuleuse Le don Juan des mil...
A few years ago I wrote the text below and published it on a different blog. Although the blog is no more, the collection the article speaks about is still at the Manchester Art Gallery, so, if intere...
A photo of the day on Yandex Fotki. Author: Vladimir Koziuck «Милый мой малыш.» на Яндекс.Фотках...
Teacher’s Day I sincerely greet you and your children and grandkids with the Day of Knowledge (Google marks this day with its doodle, too). Here is a selection of the First of September Soviet p...
To mark the last day of August, here is a scan from my childhood’s favourite booklet – Jablonex Jewellery Catalogue for 1984. With years I came to realise that some of the photos beamed wi...
An old bridge Kid’s art Biryulyovo Arboretum is located faily near to where I live: I only have to walk under the railway bridge, then take a bus, and in a few stops I will be near one of the be...
Before Paris, Je T’Aime was ever conceived, Claude Lelouch declared his love for all three at once – a city, the cinema, and a woman. As the note at the start of his short film says, the f...
As per announcement, here is a weekly feature on Kyiv Fashion booklets, spanning the period from 1972 till 1990. Be it for my mum’s heritage or some other reason, but there has always been many ...
This has been one of the favourite audio tracks of the late 1980s in the Soviet Union, and I listened to it a lot, as I was growing up. Recently on my way from an interview with a doctor-and-singer I ...
Landscape near Irkutsk (by VChokan) I hope to make one or two journeys along a part of the Trans-Siberian Railroad before the end of 2011. I’m not sure I’ll dare to go on a full journey in...