Блог о повседневной радости /// Blog on everyday joy
During one of my recent trips to Moscow, I came across an interesting article about the masterpieces of Moscow architecture in an Air France flight magazine. Besides the Stalin Sisters, VKHUTEMAS[1], the house of Konstantin Melnikov and the club Zuev, the author mentioned the Narkomfin building, erected in 1930 upon the project of Moisei Ginzburg […]
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He’s got a very pleasant voice. His speech flows calmly, measured like in a good old educational programme. At the age of 80 his physical form could easily be an object of envy for some forty year old ones, if they see him hurrying past on his Honda motorcycle in the helmet of the Second […]
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A true Marseillais, embodiment of the most popular myths about these distinct Frenchmen, Monsieur Fernand Contandin, known worldwide as Fernandel, is one of those great comedians without whom we can hardly imagine the history of French cinema today. His face didn’t need additional make-up to change instantly and provoke laughter or tears. You wouldn’t be […]
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A few weeks ago I came to think that besides my observations about the world around, it would be interesting to note talks with some of the remarkable people whom the destiny brought me along with. To get to know their fundamental values, whether we coincide in views on certain aspects of life, how they […]
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I guess every Soviet family had a copy of this legendary cookbook, the first edition of which was published in 1939 and was instantly bought up. It was created with the help of “doctors, scientists, engineers, master chefs and housewives”, and besides sometimes surprising recipes, such as scrambled eggs with herring, it contains a lot […]
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As is clear from the title of this blog, I sincerely believe that life is beautiful and amazing. Even if there exist problems, illnesses, calamities and disasters. It’s impossible to live isolated from the reality, where, alas, misfortunes happen. If I had a magic wand, I would flick it to find cure for fatal diseases, […]
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Recently I have been chatting with my friends about books: the ones we read and loved in our childhood and those of contemporary literature. Quite logically, our common interests manifested immediately, especially for the classics. We had been all engrossing in Dumas, Conan Doyle, Woodhouse, Verne, London, Marquez and, of course, Tolstoy, Bulkakov, Bunin, Ilf […]
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A small foreword to the article, which I publish below. I wrote it in February, inspired by the info received from a friend, that Modern Love column of NY Times newspaper is quite willing to publish essays on any of the topics relevant to modern love. Anyone can send his article for the editor’s consideration and […]
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One of the most popular series of comics in Europe, “The Adventures of Asterix”, illustrating escapades of a shorty Asterix and his fat fellow Obelix, invented by René Goscinny and Albert Uderzo, devotes proper place to portraying Gallic village feasts. Indeed, nothing has really changed since the Roman conquest of the country. The beginning of […]
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I love old Hollywood movies. I love cinema overall, but these ones give me a special feeling: I’ve got the same after a delicious dinner in a restaurant, or a great party, or an interesting encounter. When you utterly enjoy the moment without keeping track of time. Recently I re-watched a light and romantic “Funny […]
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La vie est belle 