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08 Aug 2017

Привет! My name is Krizia and I’m the new intern at Liden & Denz in Saint Petersburg. I’ve been studying Russian for 4 years and I’m currently attending a MA in ...
03 Aug 2017

Exciting news from St. Petersburg: yesterday, for about two hours, we were blessed with the rare and exciting opportunity to see the sun. What’s more, as I write this the sun ...
31 Jul 2017

A few weeks ago, I took a trip to Moscow to visit a good friend of mine, Olya, who lived in Saint Petersburg when I studied here a few years ago, and recently got married and ...
27 Jul 2017

I’ve always been a sucker for artsy spaces. Bookstores, coffee shops, galleries, studios–anywhere that sells crafts, handmade gizmos and gadgets and I’m there. I was, ...
21 Jul 2017

Despite all evidence to the contrary, it is, in fact, summer in St. Petersburg. Even though it’s been largely cold and rainy since my arrival in June, every once in awhile the ...
20 Jul 2017

A few weeks ago I did a spotlight on three must-read contemporary female Russian poets, and this time I’m following up with a spotlight on contemporary Russian prose. I’d ...
18 Jul 2017

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I was walking down Nevsky prospect with a hostel mate early one morning. He couldn’t get over the number of columns there were everywhere, remarking that is was like being in ...
17 Jul 2017

Tauride Garden – Таврический сад [caption id="attachment_49177" align="alignleft" width="300"] Looking a little gloomy, but still lovely[/caption] The English gardener ...
13 Jul 2017

Confession number three: I might be a hypochondriac, or, in Russian, ипохондрик. At the first sign of a cold, I’m liable to convince myself that I’m about to die any variety ...
11 Jul 2017

I'm going to begin this post with another confession. In my last post, I admitted that I love marshrutkas, and in this one I'm going to come clean once again: I am ...
10 Jul 2017

St. Petersburg and northern Russia’s infamous White Nights season is drawing to a close, but the city’s inhabitants are still flocking to watch the bridges being raised and ...
10 Jul 2017

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Saint-Petersburg is known as the cradle of the Russian Revolution, a central event of the 20th century. After the 1917 February revolution which led to the abdication of Tsar ...