I wrote that I was impressed to hear Wagner performed by Currentzis's orchestra; a music critic replied: a mediocre performance of a mediocre arrangement

I recommended Smirnov von Rauch's book "The Board of Dionysius" to my book club, and my fellow members say: a dreadful book, Alexandr, why did you choose it?

I find no answers; such, it seems, is my taste 😭

The photograph shows a portrait of Pushkin by the contemporary artist Tatiana Chuvasheva; I hope that, at least, is in order with him

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At the close of the Strugatskys' "Roadside Picnic" the Golden Sphere is asked for this: "Happiness for everybody, free, and let nobody go away unsatisfied!" I do not promise to leave no one aggrieved, but the digest really does come free

At the close of the Strugatskys' "Roadside Picnic" the Golden Sphere is asked for this: "Happiness for everybody, free, and let nobody go away unsatisfied!" I do not promise to leave no one aggrieved, but the digest really does come free. So, here is the

Frederic Leighton

Frederic Leighton. “Daedalus and Icarus”, 1869 Daedalus warns his son not to climb too high: the heat of the sun may melt the wax, but Icarus is already gazing into the distance, and the lamentations of a foolish old man interest him not in the least

I wrote that I was impressed to hear Wagner performed by Currentzis's orchestra; a music critic replied: a mediocre performance of a mediocre arrangement

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At the close of the Strugatskys' "Roadside Picnic" the Golden Sphere is asked for this: "Happiness for everybody, free, and let nobody go away unsatisfied!" I do not promise to leave no one aggrieved, but the digest really does come free

Frederic Leighton

Attempts to resolve the problems of many years of uncontrolled mass migration

Characters from Gogol's "Petersburg Tales" on the pedestal of the monument to Nikolai Gogol on Nikitsky Boulevard, photograph of the 1960s