This has been one of the favourite audio tracks of the late 1980s in the Soviet Union, and I listened to it a lot, as I was growing up. Recently on my way from an interview with a doctor-and-singer I ...
Landscape near Irkutsk (by VChokan) I hope to make one or two journeys along a part of the Trans-Siberian Railroad before the end of 2011. I’m not sure I’ll dare to go on a full journey in...
Esenin Memorial in Vagankovo Esenin Monument in Ivanovo I had a long walk in Vagankovo Cemetery today, the place where a lot of celebrated Russians were laid to rest. Among them is Sergei Esenin, famo...
The Equestrian Fountain in the Manege Square, Moscow, Russia Since I took this photo in early October 2010, it’s been included in Google Earth and viewed over 12,000 times. I’m astonished ...
Kyiv Fashion Models 1974 I grew up flicking through the pages of old fashion booklets and magazines. Although I didn’t realise this at the time, most of those booklets were produced by the Kiev ...
Ray Bradbury It may be coincidental or not, but Russians must have a particularly soft spot for the American sci-fi classical author. How can you otherwise explain the fact that yet another screen ada...
Sailing on the Moskva River towards the World Trade Centre Moscow Summer 65, originally uploaded by loscuadernosdejulia. The navigation on the Moskva River opens around April and continues through the...
Shalom Aleichem Not far from the synagogue in Bolshaya Bronnaya St. stands a small monument to the great Shalom Aleichem. Immediately as we saw his figure we began to exchange recollections of Fiddler...
A Synagogue and Jewish Cultural Centre When I decided to write about Moscow churches, the last thing I wanted was to focus the entire feature on Orthodox churches. After all, there are Old Orthodox ch...
The crisis that has befallen Russian cinema since the late 1980s is about to get deeper. Certain secret documents have surfaced that indicate that Lenfilm, Russia’s oldest and world-famous film ...