Fragments of a blog
Fragments of a blog
Google “Lorenz Haag” agency or “Lorenz Haag” Agentur, preferably using the Verbatim option, and you’ll get results like this: Western leaders “must abandon anti-Russian rhetoric, lift sanctions imposed on Russia and closely analyze and understand motives behind Russia’s actions,” in…
Sozont I. Potugin, the character from Turgenev’s The Smoke quoted by Dmitry Bykov and Erik McDonald and discussed here and here on this blog, had much more sensible views than his grumbling remarks had initially suggested. Consider this exchange from…
Going back to Erik McDonald’s latest post with this quote from Dmitry Bykov, But except for the Sochi Olympics, Russia hasn’t made any powerful contributions to international culture recently, I’m not sure the Sochi Olympics was a contribution to anything but…
More from S.M. Soloviev’s Notes, this time from the text not included in the truncated online version. The “war” refers to the advanced stage of the Crimean War, probably 1854-55. At that very time when it began to thunder above Nebuchadnezzar’s…
Count Sergey S. Uvarov, the inventor of the official triad, “Orthodoxy, Autocracy, Nationality”, was a renowned classicist and the founder of the classics-based gymnasium system in Russia. For more than twenty years Uvarov corresponded with Goethe, who predictably influenced the younger…
…discussed (or rather ripped to shreds) on Daniel Larison’s Eunomia.
Requiem aeternam dona ei, Domine, et lux pepetua luceat ei. Requiescat in pace. Amen.
The NYT writes in an art review (registration required) devoted to an exhibition of “Ukrainian modernists”: Kazimir Malevich, El Lissitsky, Alexander Rodchenko, Alexander Archipenko and Alexandra Exter were actually born, or identified themselves as, Ukrainian. According to a new exhibition…
The BBC reports from Moscow: The new holiday [Nov. 4] marks the end of Polish occupation in 1612. I suppose some Russians think so along with the BBC. Yet “the end of Polish occupation” is too vague and inclusive to…
It’s been two years since the tragedy at School No. 1 in Beslan, North Ossetia, Russia. I recommend Veronica‘s post on the day. If you can read Russian, check out her links.
What a thread at LanguageHat’s! No one in his right mind — a traditionalist would argue — would found a capital city where Peter the Great did. If that marshy spot were such a great place for a town, how come…
LanguageHat on the Subbotniki: the sect and the Communist tradition. Lots of curious bits in the thread.