To visit Kaluga takes 3 hours by train from Moscow. It’s quicker on an express train which is predictably more expensive and sought-after. I went to Kaluga during the Days of Europe event, previ...
The video was recorded during the Moscow Autumn Tourism Industry Week. This annual event traditionally attracts professionals in the sphere of Luxury Travel, Spa and Hospitality services, with a speci...
Of many sites we passed during the press-tour in Ivanovo Region was the Church of Transfiguration (before the Great Patriotic War – of St. Nicholas). There one of our group got hold of a little ...
I’m slowly losing the count of events I attended and places I visited in the last 3 months. Today, however, I went to the Antique Salon in Moscow at the Central House of the Artist, and I am sur...
A few months ago I came across an article in the Russian media about the favourite fairy tale characters among Russians. Turns out, ladies still prefer a Cinderella story, waiting for a Knight-in-Shin...
After many press events that I attended in the past there was not a single press-tour. That changed in October this year when I went to survey several towns and villages in Ivanovo Region. I visited t...
I know a lot of you are interested in the interview with Slava Polunin that I translated in 2003. It wasn’t published, and then in 2008 I thought I’d publish it here. Since then I’ve...
Moscow by Bus: from Krasnogorsk to the city centre, a set on Flickr. I visited the annual Moscow Autumn Tourism Industry Week for the second year running, and this time I was swept by the organisers t...
As part of refurbishing and replanning the Gorky Park in Moscow, they “planted” old pianos in various spots. There’s a Russian phrase – “a piano in the bushes” R...
A city is similar to a language: there will always be another word (i.e. street) you’ve never known. And even when you know the word, or the city, you may not be aware of a new context, angle, f...