The Bolshoi Theatre, 6.30pm How do you photograph the Bolshoi Theatre so it looks different? In my case yesterday I only had to visit the Russian Youth Theatre in Teatralnaya Square to find a new comp...
The Russian tradition of bell ringing is rich and famous worldwide; however, it is not always that you get to listen to the melody, let alone stop and contemplate it.The video in the post was filmed i...
Dostoevskaya, Moscow Metro Dostoevskaya metro station has been in operation since June 19, 2010. The 181st station of the Moscow Underground is among the youngest, but did its best in paying hommage t...
I was listening to a piano vistuoso Vyacheslav Ganelin before I was born. My parents went to the concert of the Ganelin Trio, which in 1980 consisted of Ganelin, Vladimir Tarasov (saxophone) and Vladi...
Today is the International Women’s Day, still seen as a day celebrating traditional feminine values and roles, i.e. that of a mother and a beauty. This year, prompted by political activity, Russ...
Protests in Pushkin Square, March 5, 2012 (Ridus/RIA Novosti) The elections took place. So did the protests of the Russian opposition. Snob.ru published an article contemplating what Mikhail Prokhorov...
On Friday I went to renew my reader’s card at the French Cultural Centre at the Foreign Literature Library in Moscow. The most wonderful thing happened: the librarian who greeted me remembered m...
Sandro Botticelli, Primavera (1482) My congratulations to all of you on the occasion of the first day of spring! Today, in fact, was a wonderful day: I learnt that two of my former colleagues have got...
Blue orchids, Vietnam A friend of mine has recently been to Vietnam. In the Soviet times you could see quite a lot of Vietnamese in Moscow, and even in my district there lived several families. I don&...
Leeds – A Henry Moore Sculpture, originally uploaded by loscuadernosdejulia. On February 22 Moscow citizens and visitors will see the opening of the event dedicated to the 20th c. Michelangelo w...