Category Archives: Writing

Cancion del dia que se va

Posted on May 9, 2013 by

On День Победы, a week and a half after labor day, we turn to Lorca for reflection. ¡Que trabajo me cuesta dejarte marchar, dia! Te vas lleno de mi, vuelves sin conocerme. ¡Que trabajo me cuesta dejar sobre tu pecho … Continue reading →

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Shishkin

Posted on April 9, 2013 by

на один прекрасный день в месте похожем на этот лес всплыла наша тень через снежный занавес кроме на-лыжах-катающихся шли мы в тишине и о всех нас-не-касающихся мы забыли истинне а хотя некультурно наступил я, ты не отказала от объятия тогда … Continue reading →

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Письмо Эрато

Posted on January 26, 2013 by

2013 – год без тебя, Год мирных гор, и тихого неба, Воробьев в березах, мягкости ветра. В этом году расслабляется земля. Хоть выдыхают деревья Я иду среди вереска До места встречи, нашего секрета. Вижу издали расходятся два берега. Думаю о … Continue reading →

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“Занимайся чтением, будь мужчиной!”

Posted on July 9, 2012 by

Though I think the gender-biased overtones are unnecessary, I suppose this literacy campaign is laudable. It certainly is well-executed and beats Dmitri Medvedev’s 2011 call for Russia’s muzhiki to take up the sport of badminton. My favorite of the authors … Continue reading →

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What Nabokov thinks of OWS?

Posted on November 21, 2011 by

Brutes, bores, class-conscious Philistines, Freud, Marx, Fake thinkers, puffed-up poets, frauds and sharks. Personally I disagree….

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Posted on October 29, 2011 by

Recently Vadim Nikitin put up what I consider one of his best posts ever It is an analysis of Peter Pomerantsev’s essay in the London Review of Books that finds the political environment created by puppet master Vladislav Surkov has … Continue reading →

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The Atlantic on Tolstoy

Posted on May 25, 2011 by

Thanks to MH: http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1891/11/count-tolstoy-at-home/8287/1/

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All Them Cornfields and Ballet in the Evening, part III

Posted on May 2, 2011 by

This is the third time I am citing John Miller’s memoir “All Them Cornfields and Ballet in the Evening”. I cannot recommend the book highly enough. Today, a valuable tidbit on the Russian language: “The word пьяный, meaning ‘drunk’ or … Continue reading →

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Last word

Posted on April 24, 2011 by

Courtesy of Alexander Dolgun (page 178): It went well, I peeled the scalp forward and called an orderly we referred to as не русский черт because of his fierce Cherkess nationalism and denial of all things Russian. He spoke poor … Continue reading →

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A Miracle of Rare Device

Posted on March 8, 2011 by

From the banks of the Don to old Astrakhan, can be measured by depth of emotion. The grass never so green in a broken machine as when you try to set it in motion. So just before dawn I hopped … Continue reading →

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