Month: July 2015
July 29, 2015: Moon over St. Basil’s
July 26, 2015: Moon over Moscow Bicycles
Alfa Future People Concert
Mikhail Fridman, arguable Russia’s richest man at the moment, walked across the flat, grassy field 415 kilometers east of Moscow accompanied by two people giving him – seemingly – an update on the electronic dance music (EDM)... Continue reading →
July 16, 2015: Music and Sunset over the Volga
NYC Themed Clothing Series
While making the 30 minute walk one summer evening in 2013 from my Moscow office to my apartment, crossing Red Square, I passed three people wearing shirts with ‘Brooklyn’ written somewhere on it. I had... Continue reading →
July 15, 2015: Red Square at Sunset
July, 10, 2015: Sun Setting Over Moscow River
Dancing at Gorky Park
There are no restrictions, so they all come – young, old, experienced, beginners, Russians, foreigners, workers, students, male, female – to dance for an hour or more along the Moscow River as the sun sets.... Continue reading →
July, 8, 2015: Irish Dancing at Gorky Park
St. Petersburg Shoe Makers
On a quiet street eight kilometers south of the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg stands the sprawling, red-brick, six-story Victoria Shoe Factory, which looks like so many pre-revolutionary factories around Russia. Built in 1914 during Czarist... Continue reading →
