Петр I. О достоинстве гостевом, на ассамблеях быть имеющем

Перед появлением многонародным гостю надлежит быть:

1. Мыту старательно, без пропускания оных мест.

2. Бриту тщательно, дабы нежностям дамским щетиною мерзкой урон не нанести.

3. Голодну наполовину и пьяну самую малость, а то и вовсе.

4. Обряженным вельми, но без лишнего перебору, окромя ( Read more... )

'The Diary of Bridget Jones' was on Bravo! tonight... so I had a peculiar reminiscence of seeing Bridget Jones for the first time back in Russia. You've seen this movie, right? I mean, seriously, who hasn't. Anyway, as you remember one of Bridget's best friends is this ex-pop-star guy who had just one hit record and it apparently provided for his ( Read more... )

"Liberte, Egalite, Fraternite. Very good, what is liberte? Freedom. What freedom? Equal freedom for everyone to do what they wish within the limits of the law? When can one do what one wishes? When one has a million.* Does freedom give everyone a million? No. A man without a million is not one who does what he wishes but one with whom everyone else ( Read more... )

Billington, James H. Russia in Search of Itself. Washngton, D.C.: Woodrow Wilson Center Press and Baltimore and London: The John Hopkins University Press, 2004.

Boym, Svetlana. “From the Russian Soul to Post-Communist Nostalgia.” Representations, no.49 (1995): 133-166.

Forest, Benjamin and Juliet Johnson. “Unraveling ( Read more... )

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even the Serbs themselves reject this kind of 'support' from the Russians. crazy.

I'm watching Eisenstein's 'Alexander Nevsky' - it's brilliantly tedious at times. Eisenstein is cinematic Einstein. pain killers may have inspired that weird rhyming ( Read more... )

finally, the Amnesty got involved. although it's too late to help the guy at this point anyway I think. I'm sooo burning my Russian passport one day.

PUBLIC AI Index: EUR 46/002/2008
18 January 2008

UA 13/08 Health concern/ unfair trial

RUSSIAN FEDERATION Vasilii Georgievich ( Read more... )

today is my sister's and my father's birthday. or as I like to call them: "two people I never had anything to say to". in case with my sister though it has always been a rather amicable coexistence without any particular interest in each other. any scars that were acquired along the way were the grown-ups fault, not ours. I guess revisiting one's ( Read more... )