Coming to a new city, you (I) somehow manage to notice just about anything, most of which a lot of citizens would ignore. And even though a lot of you, dear readers, sit abroad and don’t read in...
My visit to Yekaterinburg was partly for work, and one of my tasks was to explore the public gardens in the city. Granted there were not too many of them, I still managed to identify a few places wher...
Lisa Mokhova (by Vladimir Begma) I have been thinking recently that I barely wrote anything about Quiet Flows the Don in the last 2 years. Perhaps, I was unconsciously waiting for the exhibition of pa...
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...
Manchester Hindu Cow, 2007 Yekaterinburg Cow, 2011 One of my early years in Manchester was marked by facing the cows. Painted creatures were awaiting me everywhere – pretty much like the penguin...
Working in the industry once in your life makes you sensitive to it forever. Speaking of Advertising, I love it, and all the more so when I come across odd posters. The one in the photo hangs (probabl...
St. Trinity Church I try to take regular walks in Vorobyovy Gory, one of my all-time favourite places in Moscow. In fact, I would love to live close enough to be able to go there every other day. This...
I‘m taking part in a photography project by Kirill Kuzmin, Bloggers’ Portraits. This Internet moves in mysterious ways, and I cannot even remember now how I came across Kirill’s blog...
What I definitely liked about this year’s Moscow Design Week is its higher class. Last year’s MDW was a first attempt, clearly done with a bit of scepticism towards its own necessity. The ...
Christ the Saviour Cathedral Christ the Saviour Cathedral I am reading Cursed Days by Ivan Bunin, the Russian 1933 Nobel Laureate in Literature. In the 1917-18 Diary that precedes the narrative...