R. Burns, A Sonnet upon Sonnets (courtesy of NBC). Today is a wonderful day in my life, all about translations. I have received a permission to publish my translation of a 20th c. poet’s work fr...
Some time ago I published here extract from the book by Mikhail Romm, on different types of cinematic shots. A few of you wondered where I got the English version; alas, there is no such (yet). I thou...
Pablo Picasso, Portrait of Guillaume Apollinaire Toujours À Madame Faure-Favier Toujours Nous irons plus loin sans avancer jamais Et de planète en planète De nébuleuse en nébuleuse Le don Juan des mil...
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...
uploaded by loscuadernosdejulia | add comment uploaded by loscuadernosdejulia | add comment uploaded by loscuadernosdejulia | add comment Some 20 years ago one Soviet woman publicly claimed that ̵...
Moscow is not just about Kremlin, the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, and a handful of other well-known tourist attractions. Delve deeper into the unusual world of Moscow museums, starting with this sele...
Some of you may already have heard me singing It’s a Heartache; but I have just arranged a video to accompany the recording, in which I used some of “lonesome” photographs by Boubat,...
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 wrote the essay below in the early 2006 when I worked as a researcher for one British company. While I’m thinking of the different ways to “add value” to the text, I wanted to shar...
What to write in your first blog post may baffle the author. As a writer, I wanted to compare publishing a post instantly to labourig over a piece of paper. ...