In the recent years we’ve heard a lot about Last Supper – a large mural by Leonardo created for his patron, which can be seen at Santa Maria delle Grazie in Milan. Cenacolo (Last Supper) f...
This article on Yahoo! News that I’ve just read credits foreign students with ruining a quintessentially British art of queuing. On the Isle of Wight, it is reported, while the British citizens ...
The Joy is a short story by a renowned Russian author and playwright, Anton Chekhov. I have long loved it for its satirical look at the individual’s awe of the press. In those days there was no ...
Vladimir Solovyov A Parody on Russian Symbolists mocks an affected, indulgent style of young Symbolist poets and their love for opulent imagery...
A year ago, on August 24, 2006, after much soul- and mind-searching and researching into the possible ups-and-downs of blogging, I took my online life in my hands and started Notebooks. I have long de...
It’s raining. Yesterday it was sunny. Today it’s raining again. I feel this is the return of the summer of five years ago. I’ve always loved rain, like I’ve always loved the sk...
It’s been a few months since Manchester bloggers met at The Hare and Hounds pub in Shudehill. And we’ll be meeting again this coming Monday, between 6 and 11pm at the Festival Pavilion out...
As I said in the previous post, I tend to dislike generic questions. With regards to this debate, as a lady in the audience pointed out, both we and speakers seemed to have confounded the verbs. Whils...
As I’m planning to attend MIF’s Arts and Politics Debate at the Town Hall, I’ve been looking for what the visitors to the official website of the festival had to say on the matter. I...
We’ve got an enormous home library in Moscow, which contains many rare editions of Russian classical authors, 19th c. books, revolutionary newspapers, and the Large Soviet Encyclopedia. The libr...