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Tag Archives: Russian culture
Amateur Russian Artists
(I’m so excited to share this with you. I told myself that I’d try to take a break from blogging this month, but it’s almost the end of August, and I’m just bursting with posts!) I visited a new art … Continue reading
Quote of the Week: “We Russians are always like that…”
“We Russians are always like that. Perhaps it’s our strong point, really, the faculty of seeing our own shortcomings; but we overdo it, we comfort ourselves with irony which we always have on the tip of our tongues. All I … Continue reading
Children of the Russian Rich
Have you seen this photo series yet? It’s a project by photographer Anna Skladmann who spent years taking pictures of the children of Russia’s new elite. Here’s what Skladmann said about the pictures and the kids in an interview with … Continue reading
Anna Karenina
The famous Tolstoy novel ‘Anna Karenina‘ is being made into a film starring Keira Knightley! Great news, wouldn’t you agree? Would you go see it? This makes me want to go re-read the book… Have you read Anna Karenina? I … Continue reading
Moscow Nostalgia: Creating New Memories
One of the hardest things about living in Moscow for me is simply how little nostalgia and cultural memory this place holds for me. Think about it – why do we get excited about travelling to places like Rome, London, … Continue reading
New Russian Classics
If Kandinsky, Chagall, and Repin are among the greats of Russia’s artistic past, who are Russia’s new classic artists? I’m no art critic – not by a long shot – but here are a few paintings from current Russian artists … Continue reading
Soviet still life
I never lived in the USSR, and I’m not even Russian. Somehow, though, I still get nostalgia for, what seems like sweeter, simpler times. One of the biggest surprises to me when I first lived in Russia was the amount … Continue reading
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Best of Russia Photography
Every year Moscow’s Winzavod modern art centre hosts a gallery of the best pictures (chosen from a country-wide contest). Here are some of my favorites from this year: Aren’t these great?? Russia is so huge, so interesting, so surprising and … Continue reading
Russia’s Untouchables
A photographer I’ve worked with just put out an amazing feature on Central Asian immigrants in Russia – this country’s ‘untouchables’. It’s a sad, hard subject actually, and so very, very real for me. I’ve seen lots of different sides … Continue reading
Filming at the Bolshoi Ballet Academy
This was one of the most enjoyable shoots I’ve been able to do since coming to work at this news agency. The academy was this wonderful mix of drafty, old Soviet hallways, strict straight-backed ballet teachers, and nine-year-old Russian ballerinas … Continue reading
