Belyavchik, Gennadiy’s Pet-Cat

Gennadiy had a pet. It was a whitish cat by name Belyavchik.  Belyavchik possessed a pleasant muzzle with funny mustache and very cunning eyes. At the first sight nothing can be noticed of extraordinary in his outlook. Cat as cat as everybody else of his species. Sleeps for long hours, likes to eat fish, cookies…

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Egor the Elk (A Story from Banff)

Egor the Elk was warbling into our life and obviously to the others as well as a someone who was both unlikely and unwelcome guest. As there is a saying in Russia “welcome worse than a tatar”. Usually elks live in herds, stick together, in a way, protect each other. But this fellow, Janko called…

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About the Meaning of the Doll (“Blessed be Providence Which has Given to Each his Toy: the Doll to the Child, the Child to the Woman, the Woman to the Man, the Man to the Devil!” Victor Hugo)

That is who has read “The Miserables” by Victor Hugo that remembers the magnificent description made on the girl on en-counting the toy-shop: “…she could not refrain from lifting her eyes to that wonderful doll, towards the lady, as she called it. The poor child paused in amazement. She had not yet beheld that doll close to….

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Folklore about Chinook Wind

Chinook arrived again to our area. Those terrible temperature hikes from plus to minus and vice versа, sometimes up to 20 degrees C an hour. Look at the photos to the left and to the right: one moment the car is covered with the snow, next moment the Chinook arch is hanging over the city. It is…

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Janko Eats His B-day Cake ans Has It…

The explanation of this expression lies in the following: one cannot eat the cake twice, i. e. one tries to combine that it is incompatible. To refute it, on December 27, 1947 janko was born. Right on this occasion the beautiful cake has arrived and Janko eats it and has it. His Birthday cake was…

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