Ah, the irony! I stumbled by chance in this (at least to my eyes) very typical Russian scene. On the background you can see a large mural on the side of a house depicting the writer and Soviet dissident Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn with one of his famous quotes: “Live not by lies!” This is actually the... Continue Reading →
A couple of years ago, I wrote a post about the surreal views you can get in Saint Petersburg during the navigation period on the Neva (from April to November), when 22 bridges across the river and main canals are drawn at night to let ships pass in and out of the Baltic Sea and right through... Continue Reading →
How do you give the example and show the masses that bourgeois tendencies are irreconcilable with Socialism, with a proletarian dictatorship and with Communism? Apparently, you dump the Benz and buy yourself a Rolls Royce. At least, that is what Vladimir Lenin, the father of the Russian Revolution did in 1922. Let's take a step... Continue Reading →
Welcome to the "third episode" of Russian Game of Thrones, where every week to celebrate the final season of the show, for each House in George R.R. Martin's fantasy world, I search for a Russian city that has a similar Coat of Arms and try imagining how the main characters of that House would look... Continue Reading →
Here's the "second episode" of Russian Game of Thrones, where every week to celebrate the final season of the show, for each House in George R.R. Martin's fantasy world, I search for a Russian city that has a similar Coat of Arms and try imagining how the main characters of that House would look like... Continue Reading →
Two days before the long awaited Season 8 of Game of Thrones! Are you as excited as I am? To celebrate the final season of this show I decided to "play a game" For each House in George R.R. Martin's fantasy world, I searched for a Russian city that has a similar Coat of Arms... Continue Reading →
Imagine you have a clothing store on a central street in a medium-sized Russian city, (about half a million people). Of course you want the maximum possible number of people to see the clothes you sell, in the hope they will like them and come to buy them from you. Your clothes range from business... Continue Reading →
So, it would seem that Russian pizza chains don't watch Dr. Sheldon Cooper's "Fun with flags" (from the TV sitcom The Big Bang Theory), but they should. Let me tell you how I came to that conclusion. A little while ago I was taking some pictures (no surprise there) around Moscow's Kremlin and the Red... Continue Reading →
Sometimes you don't need to speak Russian.... to understand Russian signs! 😉 This is a pretty funny (I think) hand made sign I've found on a metal fence, right next to a popular free beach close to Zavidovo. In spite of the bad habits, because of which this sign had to be put up, Zavidovo... Continue Reading →
Russia Through The Lens 