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A Poetic Exchange
A poetic exchange. Sergey Gandelevsky replies to Nikolay Gumilyov, 77 years on
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A reflection on the impossibility of inaction and the duty to perform one's appointed tasks
A man does not yet enjoy freedom from action when he does not begin what he ought to do, nor does he attain bliss from perfect inaction. No one remains in inaction for a single minute. Every man is involuntarily compelled to act according to the principles native to his
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Books in the “Wallace and Gromit” Universe: Gromit Reads Canine Classics, Wallace Cheese Books
Gromit, the dog of the Wallace and Gromit animated universe, reads Crime and Punishment, penned by Fido Dogstoevsky, a dog, as is all the other classic literature he reads throughout the series, which is evidently of canine authorship. His luckless master Wallace, by contrast, does read "human" books,
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Tolkien sketched Helm's Deep on a used examination paper
Tolkien sketched Helm's Deep on a used examination paper. He wrote the epic The Lord of the Rings while already a professor of Anglo-Saxon language and literature at the University of Oxford
Books · Observations · Humour
Yandex Books and Romir study: every third man wants a history book as a gift
The best book to give a man is a work of history. Every third man would choose a historical study as a gift. I hope that the survey conducted by Yandex Books and Romir will put an end to the interminable disputes: an album of gardens and parks, or a
Books · Observations · Education
French readers of “Anna Karenina” prefer the storyline of Levin and Kitty
We discussed the reception of "Anna Karenina" in France in class. Here, if you please, are some average reviews of the book: "Despite what the title leads us to suppose, this book is not only the story of Anna, a married woman who falls under the spell
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Lev Tolstoy's complete works run to 90 volumes, Alexey Tolstoy's to 15
Leo Tolstoy's complete collected works run to 90 volumes. Alexey Tolstoy's, to 15. As the saying goes, who's going to give you more?
Coming Up · Cinema · Books
The Rok film studio has unveiled a project for a new film, “Family Happiness”, after Leo Tolstoy’s novel of the same name, to be realised by the young director Stasya Tolstaya (Venkova), wife of…
The Rok film studio has unveiled a project for a new film, “Family Happiness”, after Leo Tolstoy’s novel of the same name, to be realised by the young director Stasya Tolstaya (Venkova), wife of a great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-
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Once it was resonant, like a bird, Like a spring it flowed and rang out, As though it wished to pour itself out, all radiance, Along the steel wire
And then, like a distant sobbing, Like a farewell to the soul's joy, It began to sound, full of repentance, And vanished in some unknown backwoods. It perished in some wild field, Buried under a merciless blizzard... And my soul cries out in pain, And my black telephone
Art · Books · Moscow · Museums
The Multimedia Art Museum continues to honour the legacy of our distinguished contemporary Erik Bulatov, this time with the opening of the exhibition "A Marvellous Journey" by Erik Bulatov and Oleg Vasiliev, spanning thirty years of joint work…
Here is how the curators describe the exhibition: For the representatives of unofficial Soviet art, illustrations for children's books were not only a means of earning a living but also a space of creative freedom. Art for children was censored more gently, and for the Conceptualist artists the
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For a second I thought printed books had acquired a spellchecker, like Word
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A reflection on happiness as harmony with nature, prudent desires and living in the present
Plato defined happiness very well when he said that it is ever being born again but never exists: and so it is better to await it than to seek it. Do you wish to be happy? Learn but one thing: to desire prudently. The surest means of being happy is