Many years ago I read the wonderful Book of Nonsense by Edward Lear. My interests lay at that point primarily in the field of Literature, so I never looked at those five-liners from the point of ethno...
Church of Cosma and Damian Embassy of Belarus Maroseika, 12 The church of the Unmercenary Healers of Cosma and Damian stands on the corner of Maroseika St and Starosadsky Lane (Side-Street). Both stre...
To continue with the story of Moscow shopwindows: most of these come from Sretenka and Tverskaya Streets. What you will undoubtedly spot are antique shoes in the window of a footwear shop not far from...
I know that you, like me, love going into antique shops. There are many antiques and collectables shops in England, and the same is true for Russia, Moscow in particular. My walk in the city centre la...
The Cathedral of the Protection of Most Holy Theotokos on the Moat, popularly known as Saint Basil’s Cathedral (Russian: Собор Василия Блаженного), is a Russian Orthodox church erected on the Re...
Taxi for Animals in Moscow, originally uploaded by loscuadernosdejulia. This is something I have not seen in all my time in Britain, although I suspect that someone does do a similar kind of business,...
Just to carry on for a bit more en Français, these are the photo I took during the Moscow Design Week in October 2010. While I’m not sure I’d love to sleep on the silk bedsheets every sing...
This post is to merely point out to a striking, if ironic and kind of poignant, coincidence in location. By this point today I have accidentally met my old University friend, and we were walking toget...
Moscow is a fantastic place: there are many things that they haven’t got in Britain, and then there are things that they do have. Just like you may never leave Manchester because you have Piccad...
This was one of those decisive moments: when I walked into the territory of the Sretensky Stavropegial Monastery today, the first thing I saw was the priest walking with a holy book in hands. The scen...