Russian Life Magazine - July/August 2020
Russian Life Magazine - July/August 2020
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In this issue
Religious graffiti * Mapping remote Russia * Love in a Russian village * An Expat Goes Home * Language of COVID * History of Geography * The first linkup in space * History of dachas * Beet soup * Books to read in quarantine
Arctic Wake-up Call
Oil spill highlights Russia's deteriorating infrastructure
3 mins
Owls of the Eastern Ice
A Quest to Find and Save the World’s Largest Owl
5 mins
Journeys through the Russian Empire
WILLIAM CRAFT BRUMFIELD Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky traveled throughout Russia prior to the Revolution, photographing churches and mosques, railways and monasteries, towns and remote natural landscapes. His images are now archived at the Library of Congress. William Brumfield has recreated Prokudin-Gorsky’s journeys and photographed those same sites today and the photos are laid out side by side int his new book – a testament to two brilliant photographers whose work prompts and illuminates, monument by monument, questions of conservation, restoration, and cultural identity and memory.
6 mins
The Romance of the Earth
Half a century ago, the profession of geologist was both popular and revered in Russia, shrouded in a halo of romance and adventure. Indeed, it was not unusual for the lives of these explorers of subterranean mysteries to be immortalized in motion pictures, or for songs to be written about them.
7 mins
The Thimble
Pashka Bystrov, known around the village as Speedy, was leaning back against the warm stove and despondently watching his wife, Galka. Her hair still in curlers, she was tossing her dresses, skirts, and fleece tights into a suitcase, wadding up her feather-light stockings, and yelling at him that she was sick up to here, and then some, with village life, and she wanted to hear her heels tapping on asphalt and get a proper salon perm.
8 mins
“Painting Jesus Isn't Dangerous”
Orthodox Street Art in Contemporary Russia
10+ mins
An expat Goes Home
At dawn one day in late November, I was awakened by a call. It was my niece, sobbing: “Uncle Vic… Papa died.”
10+ mins
Under Review
BOOKS FOR THE GREAT PAUSE
4 mins
Russian Life Magazine Description:
Publisher: Russian Life
Category: Culture
Language: English
Frequency: Quarterly
Russian Life is your bimonthly trip to the heart of Russian reality. Colorful. Informative. Engaging. Respected.
In short, everything you can want from a bimonthly magazine on Russian history, culture, business and travel.
Each issue contains fine features, news and photo journalism on all aspects of life in Russia, past and present.
Regular departments include: Travel Notes, Events Calendar, Russian Calendar (important events in Russian history that month), Russian Cuisine and Survival Russian – a guide to the Russian you really need to know.
If you're interested in what is going on in the world's largest country, then Russian Life – in publication since 1956 and fiercely independent since 1995 – is for you.
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