Do you remember Natasha's lullaby from the film "Prophet", in which Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin plays the great Yura Borisov?

Do you remember Natasha's lullaby from the film "Prophet", in which Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin plays the great Yura Borisov? It turns out that this piercing song was both written and performed by Nadya Gritskevich, that very indie legend of the 2010s. Nadya and I met some 12 years ago; I did a photo shoot and an interview with her in my time. And now, seeing her name among the authors of the soundtrack, I was delighted by the reunion, so to speak.

"Find my hand and know that I am near": the words of "Natasha's Lullaby" adorn the collectible mini-capsule DREAMS by Alena Akhmadullina, suffused with the tireless energy of the "Sun of Russian poetry", and now my wardrobe holds such a touching Pushkin keepsake, in the aesthetic of manuscripts and etched illustrations

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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

Do you remember Natasha's lullaby from the film "Prophet", in which Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin plays the great Yura Borisov?

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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