Newton can rest on his laurels all he likes, but it looks like the most popular – as in pop-culture terms – discovery belongs to Dmitry Mendeleev. The story has it that the great Russian c...
Climbing a windmill Driving a cart Back in 2010, when I moved 3 times in two months, I had to pack and unpack and carry so many things that this experience still hasn’t quite sunk in yet. My sen...
“I’m a blue bird, I bring happiness!” Be my Valentine! Who said that only people deserved greetings on St. Valentine’s Day? Link-Assistant.com thought otherwise, so they hired ...
There is my poetic translation of Omar Khayyam at the end of the post. –Fashion– Fashion Icon, Russia, 2012 Farewell to the days when Liberty led the Revolution and didn’t care for ...
Jack, the first Black Boy in Wales The poem below is part of Blake’s cycle of poems, Songs of Innocence and of Experience, shewing the two contrary states of the human soul. To judge by an artic...
Edna St Vincent Millay I shall forget you presently, my dear, So make the most of this, your little day, Your little month, your little half a year, Ere I forget, or die, or move away,...
Image: DPA via Spiegel.de To maintain my languages, I try to listen to the radio and read the press. The Internet access means that I can dedicate as little as 15 minutes every day to this. So, this S...
Image: IndieWire Ben Gazzara died on February 3, 2012 at the age of 81 from pancreatic cancer. IndieWire called Peter Bogdanovich who was Gazzara’s close friend and directed him in several films...
There was the time when elks roamed freely on the Moscow State University grounds. Add 50 years – these days it’s only stray dogs, skiers (in winter), and students and teachers who explore...
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...