The country house of Konstantin Korovin in Okhotino has miraculously survived to this day. This very house remembers not only…
«Time! I will pass you by!»
A fair-haired thirteen-year-old girl once asked a seasoned revolutionary: “Can one be a poet and belong to the Party?” “No,”…
Siberian Flavours: A Festival of Chaldon Cuisine
Gribyatnitsa, ikryanik, vereshchaga, nalivnye kalachi, uvar… These dishes are still prepared in Siberian villages, but for today’s city dwellers, they…
Lewis Carroll’s Russian Journal
For me, the appearance of Lewis Carroll’s Russian Journal was something completely out of the blue. The image of the…
Odoevsky: The Russian Prophet
For those who have yet to read Odoevsky, one can only feel envy: they have before them an encounter with…
Past Meets Present: The Siberian Vechorka
On Saturday evenings, the young people of modern Omsk aren’t heading to a nightclub – they’re rushing off to a…
The Pilgrim of the Russian Land
The sun is at its zenith. Beneath its merciless rays, the walls of the Old City of Jerusalem appear white…
To Russia for a new life
Dimitri, sixteen, is the tallest and most serious. Anika, the eldest, is a smiling girl with kind brown eyes. Darik,…
How American classic writer Mark Twain ended up in Russia & what surprised him?
In December 1866, a lively journalist named Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain’s real name) saw an advertisement in a newspaper…
Osip Mandelstam: а Voice Silenced by the Age
Scholars, being scholars, have crunched some numbers. They have calculated that the words “time” and “century” appear in Osip Mandelstam’s…
