Tchaikovsky’s last home, at Klin near Moscow, where he lived in 1892-93. Today it is the Tchaikovsky House Museum.
Bookish, curious, critical. I also curate a manuscript blog.
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2012-03-09 69 notes
Source: leadingtone
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2012-01-12 109 notes
NPR has a beautiful slideshow of David Gilkey’s photos of the Trans-Siberian railroad called “Russia by Rail.”
Source: NPR
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2012-01-11 105 notes
Alexander Pushkin monument in St. Petersburg, Russia, taken by Mark Nelson
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2011-12-22 60 notes
[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]Twenty years ago, Andrey Grachev was Russian president Mikhail Gorbachev’s press secretary, and his final assignment was to tell the international press corps that the Soviet Union was no more.
“Somebody compared my role in those days to a character in the medieval theater, who’s switching off the light once the play is over,” Grachev recalled on PRI’s The World.
When Gorbachev resigned on Dec 25, 1991, the USSR dissolved, and the first socialist state was consigned to the dustbin of history.
(Photo: Mikhail Gorbachev in 1987 by Vladimir Vyatkin, from the RIA Novosti archive.)
Source: theworld.org
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2011-12-12 4 notes
This (courtesy of a friend and fellow Russophile) is Hedgehog in the Fog (Ёжик в тумане, Yozhik v tumane), a classic of Russian animation directed by Yuriy Norshteyn and produced by the Soyuzmult film studio in Moscow. Surreal, poignant, beautiful.
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2011-11-28 17 notes
You can’t regret your fate,” Ms. Peters once said, “although I do regret my mother didn’t marry a carpenter.
— From the New York Times, Stalin’s daughter (born Svetlana Stalina, died Lana Peters), died impoverished in Wisconsin on Nov. 22.
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2011-11-25 15 notes
You are still seeking with what to fill not your life, but your day. The very things which elsewhere provide the necessary framework of life, within which daily events are naturally ordered, this condition, as indispensable to a healthy moral existence as good air is to a healthy physical existence, is completely lacking for you. You understand that I am speaking here not of moral principles of philosophical maxims, but simply of a well-ordered life , of those habits, of those routines of the mind which put the soul at ease, which give it a regulated motion.
— Pyotr Chaadayev, “Letter One”
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2011-11-18 1 note
Galina Vishnevskaya vocalizes Sergei Rachmaninoff’s Op. 34, No. 14; piano by Vishnevskaya’s husband Mstislav Rostropovich
