I know that you, like me, love going into antique shops. There are many antiques and collectables shops in England, and the same is true for Russia, Moscow in particular. My walk in the city centre la...
The Cathedral of the Protection of Most Holy Theotokos on the Moat, popularly known as Saint Basil’s Cathedral (Russian: Собор Василия Блаженного), is a Russian Orthodox church erected on the Re...
Taxi for Animals in Moscow, originally uploaded by loscuadernosdejulia. This is something I have not seen in all my time in Britain, although I suspect that someone does do a similar kind of business,...
This post is to merely point out to a striking, if ironic and kind of poignant, coincidence in location. By this point today I have accidentally met my old University friend, and we were walking toget...
Moscow is a fantastic place: there are many things that they haven’t got in Britain, and then there are things that they do have. Just like you may never leave Manchester because you have Piccad...
This was one of those decisive moments: when I walked into the territory of the Sretensky Stavropegial Monastery today, the first thing I saw was the priest walking with a holy book in hands. The scen...
A rather European church yard Bell Tower (1788) I had a long walk today in the centre of Moscow, and this time I will be sharing some of the impressions straight away. The first is a visit to the chur...
The church of St Sophia the Holy Wisdom of God was first built around 1480 by the migrants from Novgorod the Great. The choice of the saint commemorated the famous cathedral of St Sophia in Novgorod. ...
I had a wonderful lecturer in Philosophy in my first two years at the University. We only ever had seminars with him, partly I guess because he was very old. He celebrated his birthday on November 7, ...
I may be walking down Pokrovsky Boulevard again this week, and I will make a point of taking the photo of the same view....