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Dostoevsky Warms His Ears
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God, how I long to live!..
God, how I long to live!.. Even as a little mouse I would live out my days and sprinkle my burrow with tears And, in rapture, tear open the little shirt on my chest, And carefully chew a last year's crust. Literal translation God, how I long to
Cinema · Books · Pop Culture
Happiness can be found even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light
Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore
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Leonid Gubanov's poem about pencils, tears and a breakfast on the grass
Lord! Finish off the tears from our soul, the soft pencils sleep in their little white shirts. Tomorrow I shall take their heads off with a sharp razor. They will tell me: draw that breakfast on the grass. My golden one will become taller than the others, for the repose
Faith · Books · Monarchies · Observations
Stefan Yavorsky in a 1704 sermon compared Russia to the chariot of Ezekiel
On Pharaoh's Cart. At the very beginning of the eighteenth century, Metropolitan Stefan Yavorsky, in his sermons, likens the Russian state, "our most glorious monarchy", to the chariot of Ezekiel. The comparison is most interesting, and not only because the chariot, which by design ought to
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A 1945 children's book, "Five Stamps", by the Soviet poet Vladimir Lifshits: a tale in verse about how a boy's father led his rifle battalion through five different countries: Romania, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, Poland and Germany
It may be noted that in 1945 the expression "Russian soldier" was not yet taboo.
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Ignaty Karamov's 1949 poem “Kirpichnoye” on great deeds without miracles
Let the deaf heavyweight of History Preen and boast of his record, — The secret is out: in this proud world There are loud deeds, but no miracles. We dreamed of foam, of singing, of propylaea And of the mysterious rising of solemn crowds, But in the morning the usual schemes
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Former Hotel du Nord in Odessa, where Pushkin stayed in the summer of 1823
The house in Odessa where Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin lived. The Hotel du Nord stood here, and Pushkin stayed in it for a month in the summer of 1823. The street was then called Italianskaya; in 1880 it was renamed Pushkinskaya. In 1959 a Literary Memorial Museum was opened here
Almaty · Archive · Books · Observations · Mores
I happened to read a fragment of the memoirs of Lyubov and Boris Fedotov, animal trainers quite well known in the USSR
I happened to read a fragment of the memoirs of Lyubov and Boris Fedotov, animal trainers quite well known in the USSR. It is a very sad story, I say at once. So if you fear pain, do not read the text that follows. The Fedotovs write of the hardships
Books · Heritage · Society · Paris
Digest of January publications on the Mona Lisa, Greenland and Dostoevsky
A brief review of last month's publications. We spoke chiefly of the topical and the pressing, naturally without neglecting the link with the past, which, of course, explains a great deal. And so, the digest for January. 📌 What the Mona Lisa owes its popularity to. The story of
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"Mummy, mummy, they said at the museum that Mayakovsky killed himself because of Lilya Brik." "No, he killed himself because of me."
Veronika Vitoldovna Polonskaya, the last love of Vladimir Mayakovsky