It was absolutely normal for me to read “beyond my age”, so to say. When I was seven, I read Oscar Wilde’s tales, Voynich’s Gadfly, and the ancient myths. The book in Russian t...
Although I’ve got fairly wide-ranging music interests, I was successfully, if distantly, brought up as a rock’n’roll person by my father. I came to love many music styles, but everyt...
I was writing something completely different (about German Expressionist poets) when I found a website of the poet and translator Leo Yankevich. And there was this beautiful poem by the Polish Leopold...
Russia celebrated the lift of Leningrad’s blockade on January 27th, while elsewhere in the world they celebrated the liberation of the prisoners of Auschwitz camp. There is not a single family t...
With the Olympic Games 2014 in Sochi approaching, we get readier and readier for the main sportive event. I hope there are no arrests on the grounds of a sexual orientation. In the meantime, specially...
Several years ago I was presented with a CD containins all albums by the VIA Pesnyary. I shared their song Oh early on Ivan’s Day in my early blogging days. However, the tracks from Birch-tree J...
Every year 25th of January marks the Day of St. Tatiana, acknowledged throughout Russia as a Students’ Day. On this day in 1755 the Moscow State University was founded, the date being symbolical...