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РУССКИЙ МИР.RU №08 / 2014
Year: 2014
Reading Books to Tatters
The Russkiy Mir Foundation and Russian Association of Book Publishers (ASKI) signed an agreement to jointly promote books and printed products in Russian abroad as well as to promote Russian language and literature.
Month: August
Year: 2014
“Music and Art Will Always Be Needed”
Ignat Solzhenitsyn talks about his musical career, recollections of his childhood and his first readings of his father’s works.
Month: August
Year: 2014
The Baptism of Joseph Brodsky
Joseph Brodsky lived for two years in Cherepovets, an industrial city in Northern Russia where his mother brought him at the age of 2 for the time of the Leningrad blockade.
Month: August
Year: 2014
Russians Do Not Capitulate
In the midst of the Western Dvina in Riga there is an island that stretches 2 milometers in length and is 800 meter wide. At the high point on the lies a military memorial in the form of an Orthodox chapel.
Month: August
Year: 2014
So Close to the Sky
On July 5, 2014, the Nadezhda Borodina Russian Center in Merano and the Russian Military Historical Society completed the most recent stage of their international program Unknown Pages of the Great War: Tyrolean Memories.
Month: August
Year: 2014
Potemkin Villages as They Are
Novorossiya as a potential state was first mention by the unrecognized Donetsk People’s Republic and Lugansk People’s Republic in spring of 2014.
Month: August
Year: 2014
Operation Seal
Ten cages opened simultaneously. The young seals were set free, but they seemed to lose their bearing once they swam about 10 meters from the shore.
Month: August
Year: 2014
The Rotund and the Angular
One officer whispers to another at meeting: “Why is the general silent?” The other officer responds: “He’s thinking. That’s the way it always is. If a general is silent, he’s either thinking or posing for a portrait.”
Month: August
Year: 2014
Through Reconciliation
Since the middle of the 20th century the publishing world in the West has had a sort of tradition for bestsellers about World War I.
Month: August
Year: 2014
Blessed Are the Pure in Heart
“Odoevsky? No… Haven’t read him,” says a contemporary reader, scratching his head. “What did he write?”
Month: August
Year: 2014
Master of Tea
The samovar was always referred to as an animate object. Even more so, it was considered the soul of a home.
Month: August
Year: 2014
Western Companies Working in Russia Should Not Be Held Hostage
Following the introduction of another round of sanctions against Russia by the US and European Union, the French-Russian Chamber of Commerce issued a statement underscoring its position that political conflicts should be settled only through diplomacy.
Month: August
Year: 2014
The Relay Race
This happens when you find yourself in an old and well-built city.
Month: August
Year: 2014
A Celebration of Labor
The Chekashkin family watched as the son of the neighbors, the Kurgaevs, together with friends carried the belongings of his parents, who stood by in tears.
Month: August
Year: 2014
The Raspberry Capital
It is no small thing to experience the sensation once a year that life is overflowing with raspberries. Each visitor of this festival in the village of Novoselki in the Ryazan region has this opportunity.
Month: August
Year: 2014
Patriarch Ponds
We caught sight of him: black, purposeful and fearless. But very thin… the black cat of Patriarch Ponds.
Month: August
Year: 2014
Moscow – Volga: A Canal Traveling through Time
I vividly recall my first impression of the canal: together with my entire family we were walking through the park in its spring green to the river station, ornamented with sharp spires.
Month: August
Year: 2014