The story that was recently covered by Le Figaro, has started in Moscow in around 2007 when Valery Alekseev decided to break out from his comfort zones, using the “Extreme Rhetoric” method...
Your response to the Valentine’s Day article featuring Shakespeare’s sonnet no. 22 in different languages prompted me to research the subject better… and, thankfully, I didn’t ...
Russia today celebrates one of its annual state holidays – the International Women’s Day. As befits the status of the holiday, we are all having a day-off, so even though this is Tuesday, ...
In 1987 Alla Sourikova, one of the “big” female names in Soviet/Russian cinema, made a comic interpretation of the story of the Wild West and the introduction of celluloid film to the Unit...
El Poema de las Danzas, or The Poem about the Dance, is the title under which the famous Carmen Suite Ballet was transferred onto the screen in Russia. Here is the story of how the ballet had actually...
You have probably heard about Moscow’s atrocious traffic jams. I have to visit my house 30 mins earlier because I must allow for the fact that it may take me 10-20 mins longer to get from my hou...
I ventured to the north of Moscow today, near the VDNKh – the famous All-Union Exhibition Centre. By the time I was going back home via the same metro station it was snowing heavily, and I could...
Not unlike Paul Arden in his book, I failed to find a better caption for this photo, so please feel free to offer your ideas. The photo is that of the Institute of Oriental Studies in Moscow. The balc...
London, 2004 The photo in London was taken on a film camera (affectionately known as a “soapbox”) in April 2004; it was the day when I walked from Fitzroy Street through High Holborn and v...