“In Bruges”
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We had wanted to visit Bruges for a long time, especially after watching “In Bruges” by Martin McDonagh. The movie,...
Captain Yermolaev
Nikolayev, 1887. Eastern Europe was the region where many of our Family roots originated and evolved, despite the diversity of...
Parc Monceau, Paris.
Parc Monceau, Paris. It was many years ago when we understood one of the simplest, yet most important rules of...
Destination: Siberia
Kharkov, 1952. Sasha was only four years old, when his father, Lyonya, left Kharkov for Novosibirsk. Lyonya had just received...
The Man in the Round Spectacles
Krasnoyarsk. 1946. In a quiet outskirt of Krasnoyarsk that looked more like a forgotten village than part of the city,...
Nobody’s children
While walking through the medieval Barri Gothic near the Barcelona Cathedral, we turned onto a small plaza, where a medieval...
Nikon and Efrocinia. Part II – Road to Siberia
Zabaikalie. 1899. An old family tale goes that Efrosinia walked three thousand miles all the way to the lake Baikal...
Nikon and Efrosinia. Part I – The Serf
Proskurov, 1860. In the late 1850s, in one of the large manors in Podolia, near the town of Proskurov, a...
Russian Serfdom
Everybody knows that the 13th amendment, which abolished slavery in the United States, finally passed by the House on January...
Jamon The Unifier
Last year we traveled to several regions in Spain to get the feel and, if it possible for foreigners, to...
Snow bombing
It is one thing to watch disastrous weather on TV, it is another to experience such conditions firsthand. We all...
Fire and Air
“Diaghilev invented Russia for foreigners”, said Coco Chanel. Not long ago, we went to one of our favorite theaters – Classic...