Collecting My Thoughts

http://radio.garden/ What a neat site. I'm listening to Ufa, Russia, Radio Chanson. Each green dot on the globe represents a city/town ...

I received an exciting advance copy to review this week, Helen Rappaport, "Caught in the Revolution; Petrograd, Russia, 1917--a Wor...

Retro-Soviet art When visiting the former Soviet Union, specifically St. Petersburg (aka Leningrad, Petrograd), "if you are really in...

Trip Tale: St. Petersburg, The Peter and Paul Fortress When Peter the Great of Russia decided he needed a city on the Gulf of Finland he ...

Trip Tale: Kalinka, Kalinka A Russian chorus and folk dance troupe performed in our hotel's theater in St. Petersburg. Our tour guid...

Trip Tale: Our tour group, The G-6 It's not clear what happened to the rest of them, but by the time we got on the Sibelius train fro...