In a Russian school, such a map has a second name. Mute. A mute map is a geographical map without names. For our kit...
Names and identifying details of every student below have been changed. I’ve stood in a hallway telling a child to…
Names and identifying details of every student here are changed, as they are everywhere on the blog. I once put…
A piece of paper is hanging on the door of a Warsaw shop. Four lines, in large letters. A Russian standing in front of it for the first time understands about half. Worse...
Before any of this there was a cassette My first year teaching English in Russia, back in 2011, the technology…
A writer who translates his own book can usually be congratulated. He is the only person in the world who knows exactly what was meant. Vladimir...
At two o'clock in the morning on December 15, 1964, Canadian Member of Parliament John Matheson wrote a short congratulatory note to George Stanley. The House of Commons had just...
At the end of the message, the person adds: «PS. I'll be later tomorrow.» If you type PS without switching from the Russian keyboard layout, you get ZY. In...
The Great Hall of the Conservatory, the evening of April 11, 1958. Rachmaninoff's Third Concerto has just finished sounding, at the piano a twenty-three-year-old American. The hall rises from its seats....
In 1860 in Saratov, amateurs staged an act from the drama «Bobyl». Among the inserted numbers was a song performed by...