Joseph Brodsky – On Ukrainian Independence

On 27.02.201727.02.2017 By Sergey ArmeyskovIn Art, Poetry, Russian Art1 Comment

I’ve come across the best translation of this Brodsky’s poem by Artem Serebrennikov. Continue reading “Joseph Brodsky – On Ukrainian Independence” →

Миронов Павел Андреевич (Mironov Pavel Andreyevich)

On 09.05.201509.05.2015 By Sergey ArmeyskovIn Russian History, Russian IdentityLeave a comment

Миронов Павел Андреевич

(1923-2002).

My grandfather Mironov Pavel Andreyevich.

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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

Will say it angrily. Continue reading ““O Titushka, Where Art Thou?” (A Poem On the Death of the Term #Titushka)” →

The Square of Odessa Martyrs (Piazzale Martiri di Odessa)

On 19.01.201519.01.2015 By Sergey ArmeyskovIn News, Politics2 Comments

The Ceriano Laghetto (Monza, Italy) commune named a square in honour of the people who died in Odessa during the Nazi occupation and the victims of the 2014 Odessa massacre: Continue reading “The Square of Odessa Martyrs (Piazzale Martiri di Odessa)” →