Some time ago I published here extract from the book by Mikhail Romm, on different types of cinematic shots. A few of you wondered where I got the English version; alas, there is no such (yet). I thou...
A New Year card from one of my friends – with an MSU ball My first day of 2012 was a lazy one. After all the accomplishments of 2011 I thought I deserved to sleep for as long as I wanted. The ni...
Storm-clouds hurtle, storm-clouds hover; Flying snow is set alight By the moon whose form they cover; Blurred the heavens, blurred the night. On and on our coach advances, Little bell goes din-din-din...
Through the murk the moon is veering, Ghost-accompanist of night, On the melancholy clearings Pouring melancholy light. Runs the troika with its dreary Toneless jangling sleigh-bell on Over dismal sno...
Egon Schiele, Embrace (Lovers) Marc Chagall, Green Lovers Boris Pasternak – Winter Night Sweeping, sweeping all earth’s corners Came the snowstorm turning; On the table burned a candle, St...
Storm has set the heavens scowling, Whirling gusty blizzards wild, Now they are like beasts a-growling, Now a-wailing like a child; Now along the brittle thatches They will scud with rustling sound, N...
Cold frost and sunshine: day of wonder! But you, my friend, are still in slumber – Wake up, my beauty, time belies: You dormant eyes, I beg you, broaden Toward the northerly Aurora, As though a ...
Baltasar del Alcazar Three things have chained my heart in love That equally do please: The fair Inez, a well-smoked ham, And aubergines in cheese. Friends, this Inez of whom I speak Has such a hold o...
Critics consider Ilya Glazunov's illustrations to An Unknown Lady by Alexander Blok to be the overall finest illustrations of Blok's work....
I watched The Man Who Saved the World in November 2005. The first time we observe someone’s attempt to go out of their way to replicate something it usually makes us laugh. So, I guess the attit...