Parc Monceau, Paris.
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Parc Monceau, Paris. It was many years ago when we understood one of the simplest, yet most important rules of...
Kulichi
Tanya
The meaning of Easter is the same for all Christians around the world. This is the holiest holiday that celebrates...
Destination: Siberia
Kharkov, 1952. Sasha was only four years old, when his father, Lyonya, left Kharkov for Novosibirsk. Lyonya had just received...
The Jesuit Viewpoint
Fedor
The medieval city of Toledo holds many wonders – The Grand Alcazar, The Plaza of Zocodover and the famous Toledo...
Gefilte fish
What is the classic cold Appetizer In Ashkenazi cuisine? What makes gefilte fish so different from all other fishes? Why...
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,...
A Place of Dark Wonder
Toledo, Spain. I’m in awe as I move at night through the narrow, ancient streets of Old Toledo, exploring this...
Pelmeni
How did we spend quality time as a family in Siberia? We read books aloud, played musical instruments and sang...
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...