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...
Of many sites we passed during the press-tour in Ivanovo Region was the Church of Transfiguration (before the Great Patriotic War – of St. Nicholas). There one of our group got hold of a little ...
I’m slowly losing the count of events I attended and places I visited in the last 3 months. Today, however, I went to the Antique Salon in Moscow at the Central House of the Artist, and I am sur...
A few months ago I came across an article in the Russian media about the favourite fairy tale characters among Russians. Turns out, ladies still prefer a Cinderella story, waiting for a Knight-in-Shin...
After many press events that I attended in the past there was not a single press-tour. That changed in October this year when I went to survey several towns and villages in Ivanovo Region. I visited t...
I know a lot of you are interested in the interview with Slava Polunin that I translated in 2003. It wasn’t published, and then in 2008 I thought I’d publish it here. Since then I’ve...
Moscow by Bus: from Krasnogorsk to the city centre, a set on Flickr. I visited the annual Moscow Autumn Tourism Industry Week for the second year running, and this time I was swept by the organisers t...
As part of refurbishing and replanning the Gorky Park in Moscow, they “planted” old pianos in various spots. There’s a Russian phrase – “a piano in the bushes” R...
A city is similar to a language: there will always be another word (i.e. street) you’ve never known. And even when you know the word, or the city, you may not be aware of a new context, angle, f...
I have just spent the most wonderful three and a half minutes listening to Sonata Erotica by Erwin Schulhoff. Why wonderful, you ask? Composed in 1919, at the time when all the best artistic minds pla...