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...
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...
Today is the International Women’s Day, still seen as a day celebrating traditional feminine values and roles, i.e. that of a mother and a beauty. This year, prompted by political activity, Russ...
Protests in Pushkin Square, March 5, 2012 (Ridus/RIA Novosti) The elections took place. So did the protests of the Russian opposition. Snob.ru published an article contemplating what Mikhail Prokhorov...
On Friday I went to renew my reader’s card at the French Cultural Centre at the Foreign Literature Library in Moscow. The most wonderful thing happened: the librarian who greeted me remembered m...
Sandro Botticelli, Primavera (1482) My congratulations to all of you on the occasion of the first day of spring! Today, in fact, was a wonderful day: I learnt that two of my former colleagues have got...
Blue orchids, Vietnam A friend of mine has recently been to Vietnam. In the Soviet times you could see quite a lot of Vietnamese in Moscow, and even in my district there lived several families. I don&...
The exhibition by Svetlana Konegen "Nome. Cose. Citta" (Names. Things. Cities) follows several Italian towns where the lnguist travelled...