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...
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...
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...
Back in 2009 Italian designer Gianluca Gimini started asking friends and complete strangers to draw a bicycle by heart. Some of the people came out with ordinar... Read More...
Eccentric fashion icon, interior designer and muse Iris Apfel is coming to Paris! “Iris in Paris” exhibition at department store Le Bon Marché includes outfits ... Read More...
Recent discovery: new Franco-Russian book edition which is beyond beautiful.
"In Russia, a writer is a destiny. A writer is a dissident by definition. Tols... Read More...