This scene was captured on the bridge across the Yauza River near the Foreign Literature Library. You will see changing billboards, some traffic, water reflections, people walking, and ducks bathing....
In Russia, we celebrate Easter on April 15 this year; contrary to the UK, Easter is not marked by days-off, – unlike Christmas holidays. I have just had a conversation with my colleague a...
Thomas Kinkade, Venice. Back in December 2011, we gave my colleague (a Sag, like me) a calendar as a birthday present. It was a selection of paintings by the American artist Thomas Kinkade who unexpec...
It is a bad sign when people stop understanding humour, irony, or joke. – Fyodor Dostoevsky. This is a rare photographic portrait of Fyodor Dostoevsky, made by his close friend Konstatin Shapiro...
Had he lived to this day, Andrei Tarkovsky, a genuine Russian film director, would celebrate his 80th birthday. Instead, we celebrate the lifetime of work marked by a never-ending philosophical quest,...
Art Salon came to the Central House of the Artists in Moscow between 16 and 25 of March. I visited it with a friend of mine who kindly helped me to delve into contemporary Russian painting and sculptu...
Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward. – Kurt Vonnegut (official site). ...
Arts & Collections have gathered five recommendations for the places to stay that offer the best “room with a view”. Surprisingly or not, the UK’s Lake District has made it to th...
It is almost strange to say this, but spring finally seems to be coming to Moscow. The winter has been hesitant to start, and then it did not want to end. Even now the snow is still on the ground, alt...
Image: Seth Adam Smith Laughter is humanity. – Leo Tolstoy (consult Encyclopaedia Britannica)....