Not long after I came back from Tarusa a chain of various events ensued, mostly pleasant. I attended the opening of two exhibitions at the Central House of the Artist and previewed the other two there; met with a few friends at various lovely places, and finally attended the first night of Boris Godunov by Alexander Pushkin stages by Nikolai Kolyada and performed as part of Kolyada Festival at the theatre centre “Na Strastnom”. Presently I’m sitting in one of my favourite cafes after a good productive afternoon at the Foreign Literature Library where I have been working on one of the projects I mentioned last year. And frankly, little can put you into the right working mood than the following sights that you see immediately upon leaving the house.
As a matter of fact, two girls who sit behind me chat about movies, one of them boasting that she can “predict” the twists and turns of the characters’ destinies. Both also discover their shared longing for the beauty and simplicity of the old films, namely The Breakfast at Tiffany’s.
