The town and vicinity of Tarusa are well-known for the love that great Russian artists, musicians, and writers had for it. I mentioned previously that Marina Tsvetaeva, Konstantin Paustovsky, Viktor B...
You may have heard of the heavy snowfalls that came down on Moscow in the last few days. While such snowfalls usually play a few tricks with the appearances of people and buildings, this year’s ...
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...
Perhaps there is no better way to eventually visit a city than to start learning about upcoming events. So, in a hope to finally visit St. Petersburg I’d like to post here provisional list of ex...
View my profile Create your own travel map. http://www.tripadvisor.com/MemberTravelMap?a=EMBED&mode=js&id=g23DAAAC63B5AB75C1340DB03D41EA9CD&want=map I mentioned before that I criss-crossed...
Einstein with a coffee mug (courtesy of Elevatorbob) A poem Einstein Among the Coffee Cups by Louis Untermeyer (1885-1976) was included in his Collected Parodies (1926). An American poet, translator, ...
A small town in Kaluga Region scattered along the Oka River, Tarusa has long been loved by the creative folk. The Tsvetaev family used to live here, including Marina Tsvetaeva; their house museum is o...
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...