Pablo Picasso, Portrait of Ambroise Vollard (1910) The cross-cultural year between Italy and Russia, celebrated in 2011, is quickly picking up the pace with the several exhibitions of outstanding Ital...
Cold frost and sunshine: day of wonder! But you, my friend, are still in slumber – Wake up, my beauty, time belies: You dormant eyes, I beg you, broaden Toward the northerly Aurora, As though a ...
This is one of the central places to enjoy classical art in Moscow. In 2012 the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts marks its 100th anniversary. In these hundred years the museum hosted an impressive array of...
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...
VIP anytime pass for 2 persons Moscow traffic has positively collapsed this week, and for a godly reason: the sash of Our Lady was brought to Russia from the Mount of Athos in Greece. This is an unpre...
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 ...
RecipeMama In a tiny kitchen in our flat my mother and I have just lost a small pancake, or a pikelet. My mother was turning over the pikelets in the frying pan when this little fellow slipped off a s...
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...
Yekaterinburg: Komsomol and Cathedral One of my vivid recollections of the visit to Yekaterinburg is the fact that many of its streets have not been renamed. As a result, the Cathedral on the Blood on...
I didn’t realise how this happened, but in the month of July our house acquired 4 kittens. I came to Moscow in 2010 to discover a cat, and this summer she (and we) got 4 more felines. They were ...