Listen to the song :   Boris Shtokolov, “I’ve met you…”
Fyodor Ivanovich Tyutchev dedicated his verses to K.B. and here are the beautiful words:
“I’ve met you-and now all the by-gone
Revives in my senescent heart,
I’ve called to mind the moments golden
That all their warmth to me impart…                 [...]

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Listen to the song :“The Dogs and the Horses”, The Divine Comedy
Here are its lyrics:                                                                                 [...]

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Five of us: Carey, Alma, Alisdair, Janko and myself are heading towards the location of the World’s Biggest Easter Egg in Vegreville. 13-years-old Alisdair is our navigator, his Dad is a pilot. GPS voice is guiding us so gently and carefully that in no time we arrived to Red Deer town. On the photos one [...]

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As an introduction watch video:“Johann Strauss Wiener Walz An der Shonen Blauen Donau (Viennese Waltz)”
Malacky, a small Slovakian town, near Bratislava. Synagogue, not functioning, as the whole congregation was perished during the Holocaust. Nowadays a local arts children’s school is located here. To the right and to the left one can see the photos [...]

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Watch the video:“Million Roses”
Once I noticed having visited the concerts in Calgary and at other cities of North America, that the artists are not given very many buckets of live flowers. By the way, it is not habitual among regular people also to give the flowers to each other. Why? It is yet so beautiful [...]

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Listen to the beautiful verses :“GRANDMA”
“If youth knew, if age could!’ has been an old cry. The tragedy of human race has been that youth does not know the consequences of action and age does not have the physical power to do things. Age has foresight and wisdom born out of experience. If youth had [...]

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Watch video, it is for you, Aljosha”:Peter Leshchenko-At the Samovar  I and My Masha
“How do you do?”, good people! Come in and feel at home! How was the road condition on the way from Edmonton to Calgary, how long did it take you to come to our city, was everything all right with you, guys?” [...]

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First. (AP) Moscow-Lyudmila Gurchenko, a popular Russian movie actress since the mid-150s, has died at age 75. She was an outstanding singer, actress, writer and elegant woman. to the left her portrait and the video with her singing.
St.Petersburg-Moscow
President Dmitry Medvedev said: “Gurchenko’s passing was an irreplaceable loss for the national culture” and characterized her as [...]

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