Egon Schiele, Embrace (Lovers) Marc Chagall, Green Lovers Boris Pasternak – Winter Night Sweeping, sweeping all earth’s corners Came the snowstorm turning; On the table burned a candle, St...
Juxtaposing Isaac Levitan's painting and Vladimir Gilyarovsky's book, what can we learn about Moscow life in 1880s?...
Storm has set the heavens scowling, Whirling gusty blizzards wild, Now they are like beasts a-growling, Now a-wailing like a child; Now along the brittle thatches They will scud with rustling sound, N...
Cold frost and sunshine: day of wonder! But you, my friend, are still in slumber – Wake up, my beauty, time belies: You dormant eyes, I beg you, broaden Toward the northerly Aurora, As though a ...
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...
When I published a poll awhile ago, asking what work should I concentrate on to finish, most of you voted for the book about three generations of men united by an experience of surviving fatherhood (o...
I really like it when Easter falls on the same day across the Christian denominations. While I am planning to share a few memories later today, I first and foremost share the old postcards from my fam...
The Palm Sunday, or the Entrance of Our Lord into Jerusalem, is one of the movable feasts in the Christian calendar, celebrated one week before Easter...
Credit: Stef To celebrate the April Fools Day, someone on LinkedIn added these profiles to the network. While Sherlock Holmes and Groucho Marx were assigned hardly surprising occupations, Robin Hood i...
Russia today celebrates one of its annual state holidays – the International Women’s Day. As befits the status of the holiday, we are all having a day-off, so even though this is Tuesday, ...