On July 27, 1841 the great Russian Romanticist poet Mikhail Lermontov had been killed at the duel in Pyatigorsk. In his short lifetime, filled with romance, military service, and bitterness, he compos...
Italian Impressions by Alexander Blok is a curious example of the Russian Symbolist poet visiting Italy and returning largely unimpressed...
Pedro Saenz, The Poet’s Tomb Pain of the Matador (photo by Greg Wesson) The painting by Pedro Saenz La Tumba del Poeta reminds me of two things. One, is Pain of the Matador monument in Madrid; a...
Representation of Venus Anadyomene in painting and in Arthus Rimbaud's sonnet reveal two strikingly different viewpoints....
Samuel J. Peploe – The Pink Dress. A Study of a Burmese Girl I am reading a book by the famous Soviet writer and translator, Kornei Chukovsky. Among other things, he translated Walt Whitman into...
Image: Thoughful India. I couldn’t resist including it… 🙂 Some time ago I took part in a research project conducted by a Russian Psychology student that seeks to explore the phenomenon of ...
Boris Pasternak - It Is Not Seemly to Be Famous reads as an artist's manifesto of the importance of inner growth over the public fame...
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 ...
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...
A memorandum of Leonardo da Vinci is no ordinary to-do list: it is a map of mental search and intellectual development that illuminates the nature of genius...