Alexei Tyranov, The View of the Big Church of the Winter Palace (1829) Eduard Hau, The Grand Church (1860s) In this 1829 painting the Russian artist Alexei Tyranov depicted the interior of the ...
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...
At the top left corner of my blog there now hangs a widget which I hope you will use. It is an online petition to the Ukrainian President to stop cruelty on animals. You can read the petition below. B...
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...
Earlier this week I had to recall how, during a trip to Carmarthen in 2007, I walked into a Waterstone’s shop and took a textbook on the English language off the shelf. It was a manual for schoo...
I love discovering versions of well-known songs in different languages. Here are three absolutely different versions, not only in that one is in English, another is in French, and the third is in Ital...