Those sleepless nights when ceiling is like a sky, Heavy with floods of never ending thoughts, Hiding the long-forgotten thunderbolts Of memories and regrets that never die – Those sleepless nig...
By way of tradition, I’m about to wish all of us a very happy new year ahead. It’s got to be good now that we survived the End of the World frenzy, don’t you think? My 2012 has been ...
I don’t really now how many cats Francesco Petrarca had in his lifetime. Neither do I know much about the cat that was embalmed and put to stay in his house-museum in Italy. I did read his lette...
This is the poem I shall be working on translating, most likely, in 2013. 2012 has resulted in a few good translations of poems, as well as some prose pieces. Among them – translations from Robe...
I have to say, Moscow City government seems in no big hurry this year to decorate the city centre for the festive season. New Year trees have already sprung up in and around some public places, partic...
We wish you a very merry and happy Christmas. Let this season bring you peace, joy, quietude, and faith. With best wishes from Moscow to wherever you are, Julia....
One of the highlights of the 33rd Antique Salon in Moscow in October 2012 was a showcase of German medieval and Renaissance paintings, generously offered by Russian private collectors one time only. T...
To add to the funny moments here is a rather blurry photograph (sorry!) taken at the Antique Salon in October 2012. When wandering through the splendid displays I caught the shelf where an antique boo...
It is an historical anecdote that around the year 1000 the pious medieval Christians willingly gave up their possessions to the Church, fully expecting the world to end the moment the clock struck 12a...
Alexandre Benois’s costume design from The Art I’ve Lived With (more highlights at ABA Gallery) New York’s ABA Gallery hosts the first-ever public display of the private art collecti...