The State Duma elections are coming up on December 4th. The power party, United Russia, has produced a video ad that they have since adjusted to take the mickey out of their political opponents, Fair ...
Yekaterinburg: Komsomol and Cathedral One of my vivid recollections of the visit to Yekaterinburg is the fact that many of its streets have not been renamed. As a result, the Cathedral on the Blood on...
There seems to be something inexplicably attractive about the letter “I”. The American protagonist of Eat, Play, Love went, respectively, to Italy, India, and Indonesia in search of her tr...
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 ...
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....
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...
… I was in a terrible worry: Daniel (my late ex-husband) was coming to Russia on September 13. One, I wasn’t sure if he’d be allowed to fly, and we both missed each other badly. Two ...
I have recently republished my 2007 short story The Kiss: The Story of a Dream on Yahoo! Associated Content. In Chelyabinsk later in September they are going to unveil a monument under the name The K...
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...
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 ...