It’s time to tell you what happened to those two polls I threw at you in April-May. First, countries you thought I would visit in 2011. Most of you thought I’d go to Ukraine; the second pl...
I rediscovered this photo on my return to Moscow. It was taken at the State Historical Museum in 1999, where I and other students from our department of Medieval and Early Modern History went f...
Alexander Ivanov, The Bay of Naples near Castellmare (1846) Alexander Ivanov, On the Shore of the Bay of Naples (1850s) The Bay of Naples has traditionally been a favourite with painters. Peter...
Sheffield 7 – Andrew Motion “What If…?”, originally uploaded by loscuadernosdejulia. Via Flickr: What If..? by Andrew Motion O travellers from somewhere else to here Rising fro...
York – Velazquez – Venus at Her Mirror, originally uploaded by loscuadernosdejulia. One of world’s best-known painting, Diego Velazquez’s Venus at her mirror (1644-48), hangs a...
«Спас на Крови» на Яндекс.Фотках This photo is currently The Photo of the Day on Yandex’s analog to Google’s Picasa/Panoramio. I really hope to visit St Petersburg during the White Nights ...
After Leonardo’s portrait discovered in 2009, and the imminent conclusion about what may be the remains of Mona Lisa, this is probably the next most important artistic discovery of the last few ...
Recently a Russian query has led to my blog: “и повторится все как встарь аптека улица”. So here is my English translation of a well-known poem by Alexander Blok, Night, a Streetlight, a S...
Alexander Ivanov, the contemporary of Nikolai Gogol and Karl Brullov, spent a large part of his life in Italy where he also did many sketches for his masterpiece, The Appearance of Christ to the Peopl...
Article first published as The Russian Manchester: How Ivanovo Is Finding Its Way in Post-Soviet Russia on Blogcritics. People of Manchester, rejoice! No longer is Venice the only enviable comparison ...