Fyodor #Dostoyevsky on the #Slavic Question

On 25.02.201526.02.2015 By Sergey ArmeyskovIn Geopolitics, Longreads, Quotes, Russian Literature1 Comment

Fyodor Dostoyevsky‘s Diary (1877, November).

Portrait of Fyodor Dostoyevsky by Vasily Perov, 1872.

Some Quite Special Remarks about the Slavs That I Intended to Make Long Ago.

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“O Titushka, Where Art Thou?” (A Poem On the Death of the Term #Titushka)

On 30.01.201530.01.2015 By Sergey ArmeyskovIn Poetry2 Comments

My take on the Flying Bear (“Bearplane”) – the Khabarovsk Airport logo which became a viral sensation in Russia. Caption says – “Полёт над гнездом титушки” (polyot nad gnezdom titushki), an allusion to “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest”: ‘titushka’ rhymes with ‘kukushka’, i.e. ‘cuckoo’ in Russian.

Oh, glorious “titushka“!

You now ceased to be.

No Kievan babúshka

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