It's Christmas time! From one year to another, Chanel and Dior are coming out with predictable gold-and-red lipsticks and eyeshadow sets, and Guerlain is putti... Read More...
Museum of Industrial Culture is a strange, strange place. You enter a huge hangar - and suddenly find yourself in the world littered with old things. Hundreds o... Read More...
Diptych is a double image on the heavy oval perfume bottle that tells a story of a long journey. Indian temple surrounded by the smell of incense and the heat o... Read More...
Church of the Intercession on the Nerl is probably one of the most remarkable Christian buildings in Russia. A lot of people may know this picture: slim silhoue... Read More...
For the longest time ever my practical knowledge of Russia was formed by two cities: Moscow (the place where I/my parents/their parents were born) and Saint Pet... Read More...
Oh these beautiful little towns placed near the city of Saint Petersburg! The place of Aleksander Pushkin's lyceum life, the royal Tsarskoye Selo and the Cather... Read More...
A massive pale beige building placed in the middle of one of the oldest parts of my hometown: tall white columns, wide steps and a silver domed roof is an ele... Read More...
The history of this outstanding three-storey mansion in the style of "early modern" dates back to the 1730s, when Bolshaya and Malaya Morskaya Street appeared i... Read More...
Dear friends, it's time to talk about my place of daily pilgrimage when in St. Petersburg - the Volchek boulangerie-bakery as everything there is so divinely ta... Read More...
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