Although the father-founder of the Moscow Design Week, Alexander Fedotov, has said that the event organisers tried not to restrict “design” to Architecture and Interior Design only, but al...
Chuck & The Dirty Dog, Moscow, July 2011 In Chelyabinsk (that’s a city in Southern Ural in Russia) they are celebrating John Lennon’s 71st birthday on October 10. Paul McCartney is tyi...
Apparently, these two buildings that nowadays both belong to the Yekaterinburg Academy of Architecture (founded in 1972) have been a kind of smithy of the future Arts (Cinema, Music) figures. T...
An ordinary metro station… …and the guy by the wall Back in 2007 I told a tearful story of how I was trying to take a picture of Myron’s Discobolus at the British Museum in London....
At home in Moscow we have a huge collection of Anne Geddes images. They were sold as postcards in Moscow, and my mother and I bought them, thus creating a lovely selection on Anne’s work. Renown...
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Love locks tree, Moscow Wedding rings, Moscow When I returned to Moscow nearly a year ago, I was surprised to eventually discover that one of the bridges that is very popular with newlyweds has acquir...
Grand Duke and Duchess Some 15 years ago a teacher of Literature at my school lent me a book to read. In the wake of budding interest in the tragic history of the end of the Romanovs dynasty in Russia...
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I have recently republished my 2007 short story The Kiss: The Story of a Dream on Yahoo! Associated Content. In Chelyabinsk later in September they are going to unveil a monument under the name The K...