Zurab Tsereteli, Peter the Great The Moscow powers assured the citizens and visitors that one of the landmark monuments will remain in its place. The monument commemorating the 300th anniversary of th...
The scans in this post are of the book that was published by Progress Publishing House in 1982. That’s how long – as long as I live – I’ve been learning the English language. I...
St Basil Cathedral, Moscow, Russia Moscow’s Saint Basil’s Cathedral Is 450 see larger image uploaded by loscuadernosdejulia uploaded by loscuadernosdejulia | add comment uploaded by loscua...
St Basil Cathedral seen from the Moskva River, Moscow, Russia Moscow Summer 10, originally uploaded by loscuadernosdejulia. I took the picture two weeks ago when I went on a Moskva River cruise. St. B...
One of Moscow’s celebrated monuments, The Cathedral of the Intercession of the Virgin by the Moat, otherwise known as St Basil’s Cathedral, marks its 450th anniversary today. The celebrati...
One of the Russian bloggers I know did an interview with an Internet troll. Yes, that very troll who creates havoc in forums and makes people clash, while he quietly sits in front of his PC or laptop ...
In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly lov...
This is also a wonderful place, or rather its’ environs are so. The town itself except the great street of Toledo is beastly, but the Quay (on which I live in an excellent hotel with a noble vie...
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...