In 1987 Alla Sourikova, one of the “big” female names in Soviet/Russian cinema, made a comic interpretation of the story of the Wild West and the introduction of celluloid film to the Unit...
I wanted to share something about what I am presently doing in terms of literary work.Whereas previously I had often lived in the space created by one language, my space is now always bilingual, where...
William A. Bougereau – The Abduction of Psyche For the Quotes on the Front Page today I chose a beautiful sonnet 22 by William Shakespeare. Although it speaks of the age difference, I pay but a ...
This is not a book that one can read – if reading means to start at the first page and to finish on the last. Here it does not end. One can use this book their entire life. One can also read it ...
Photography and drawing – juxtaposition. For me, photography is a spontaneous impulse towards a constant visual attention that captures both the moment and eternity within it. A drawing, by its...
A well-known poem by Alexander Blok was chosen to represent Russian poetry in the Leiden-centred project, Poems and Walls....
I have translated this song previously into Russian, now it’s the turn for English rendition. I like this particular, romantic and tender, version. Once again, Polnareff gently attacks the socie...
I have noticed over the years that, unless someone who lives abroad is a serious Cinema student, Russian (and Soviet, especially) films are largely unknown in the West. Films by Andrei Tarkovsky will ...
It’s been a couple of years already that Mr Freeman has been the mystery no. 1 on the Russian Internet. Although there have been many a guess who may be hiding behind this matchstick man, the re...
Exegi Monument, originally uploaded by loscuadernosdejulia. My parents and I went recently to Kuskovo, a Moscow residence of the famous noble family of the Sheremetievs. The father, Pyotr, and his son...