“I have been told,” said the count, “that you do not always yourselves understand the signals you repeat.” “That is true, sir, and that is what I like best,” said t...
To the sensitive young woman who has had the benefits of proper upbringing, the wedding day is, ironically, both the happiest and most terrifying day of her life. On the positive side, there is the we...
Fresh from reading a summary of Keira Knightley’s interview, I’d like to say that I, too, haven’t been watching TV on a daily basis since 2008. Even though we had TV sets in our Mosc...
I think writing is the ultimate job for a control freak. Alastair Campbell, a British journalist, broadcaster, and author....
You don’t have to see the whole staircase – just take the first step. Martin Luther King, an American activist and civil rights leader. Read an amusing story that took place in Moscow in ...
Frankly speaking, this is the only red caviar dispensing machine that I’ve seen in Moscow. It is easily reached from Baumanskaya metro station. It would be nice if there were, say, a machine dis...
I‘m not sure if we, as Muscovites, actually realise how many churches there are in our city centre. Fair enough, there were even more, and we’ve long heard complaints that many of them had...
My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there. Charles Kettering, an American inventor....
I‘m thinking that it is now, after many years in another country that couldn’t be any further from Russia in very many ways, – it is now that I’m beginning to really discover m...
Photography and drawing – juxtaposition. For me, photography is a spontaneous impulse towards a constant visual attention that captures both the moment and eternity within it. A drawing, by its...