I shall continue telling you about and showing some of the gems of my home library. A large part of it consists of my childhood books, including those in English. I have already shared an old b...
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Pablo Picasso, Portrait of Guillaume Apollinaire Toujours À Madame Faure-Favier Toujours Nous irons plus loin sans avancer jamais Et de planète en planète De nébuleuse en nébuleuse Le don Juan des mil...
A few years ago I wrote the text below and published it on a different blog. Although the blog is no more, the collection the article speaks about is still at the Manchester Art Gallery, so, if intere...
A photo of the day on Yandex Fotki. Author: Vladimir Koziuck «Милый мой малыш.» на Яндекс.Фотках...
Teacher’s Day I sincerely greet you and your children and grandkids with the Day of Knowledge (Google marks this day with its doodle, too). Here is a selection of the First of September Soviet p...
To mark the last day of August, here is a scan from my childhood’s favourite booklet – Jablonex Jewellery Catalogue for 1984. With years I came to realise that some of the photos beamed wi...
An old bridge Kid’s art Biryulyovo Arboretum is located faily near to where I live: I only have to walk under the railway bridge, then take a bus, and in a few stops I will be near one of the be...
Before Paris, Je T’Aime was ever conceived, Claude Lelouch declared his love for all three at once – a city, the cinema, and a woman. As the note at the start of his short film says, the f...
As per announcement, here is a weekly feature on Kyiv Fashion booklets, spanning the period from 1972 till 1990. Be it for my mum’s heritage or some other reason, but there has always been many ...