“He who comes to us with a sword shall die of the same sword” – Sergei Eisenstein’s Alexander Nevsky poster The Great Russian Prince Alexander Nevsky died on November 14, 1263....
The video was recorded during the Moscow Autumn Tourism Industry Week. This annual event traditionally attracts professionals in the sphere of Luxury Travel, Spa and Hospitality services, with a speci...
Had he lived to this day, Andrei Tarkovsky, a genuine Russian film director, would celebrate his 80th birthday. Instead, we celebrate the lifetime of work marked by a never-ending philosophical quest,...
Julia and the yellow Porsche GUM, which is short from Glavnyi Universalnyi Magazin, is the oldest and the largest department store in the capital. Having started long before the 19th c. as the trading...
Last Friday I attended a press-conference at the RIA Novosti agency in Moscow, after which I thought I’d try to shoot a video on a bridge across the Moskva River. I tried it in colour, but event...
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&...
As I began to love myself, I found that anguish and emotional suffering are only warning signs that I was living against my own truth. Today, I know, this is authenticity. As I began to love myself I ...
The daughter of Joseph Stalin, Svetlana Alliluyeva, passed away last night. A graduate of the Faculty of History of the Moscow State University (just like me), she shunned the media for many years unt...
The State Duma elections are coming up on December 4th. The power party, United Russia, has produced a video ad that they have since adjusted to take the mickey out of their political opponents, Fair ...
One thing I wanted to ask Michael Cunningham but couldn’t was the choice of actress type for the role of Clarissa. I was watching Annie Leibovitz doing this interview, and then I went to read ab...