Names and identifying details of every student below have been changed. I knew the answer and said nothing for an…
A child who grew up abroad knows the words snow and cold and is completely sure that is enough. Meanwhile, in Russian, one...
Names and identifying details of every student here are changed, as they are everywhere on the blog. Nagging is not…
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...
Names and identifying details of every student below have been changed. A sentence I read in a journal, and the…
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...
Notebook out, date at the top. Same words from me, every lesson, the whole of September. Timur took out the…
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,...