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Ask a bilingual child how their trip to their grandmother went. Most likely, that’s what happened. We went. Then we walked around. Then we ate. Then…
For the English-speaking reader, the Kremlin has long meant not a fortress, but power. Roughly speaking, it’s like the White House or Downing Street: the Kremlin said, they mean…
We will have to start with an awkward admission. The Russian custom itself has no Russian name. The word «toast» came from English and meant roasted...
The morning of the fourteenth of December, 1825, St. Petersburg, frost. About eight hundred soldiers of the Moscow Regiment march onto Senate Square. The officers form them into ranks...
There is a sure way to ruin a honey cake, and it is not described in any recipe: bake it absolutely correctly and serve it with...
In Lev's hallway stands a wicker basket, once bought at IKEA for blankets, but serving a completely different purpose. Inside it lie...
There are two frames that deserve to be placed side by side. In the first one, there is a monkey from the 1936 film: round ears, round eyes, sweeping gestures,...
In the 1920s, the Russian language abbreviated everything in sight and at some point got around to people. Boys were named Vladlen, from Vladimir...
A beverage shelf in a supermarket somewhere near Boston. Kombucha in glass. Ginger ale. Between them a dark plastic bottle, on the label...
A teenager brings home a video found through a search for Joseph Stalin. A cheerful voiceover announces that the leader inherited a country with a wooden plow,…
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