Watch video:Hymne a l’Amour (Edith Piaff) Mathilde Kschessinskaya (1872-1971) was the greatest Russian ballerina of the classical period,of Swan Lake and Sleeping Beauty at the end of the nineteenth century, before the innovation styles of the Ballets Russes of Serge Diaghilev. Mathilde was born on 19 August, 1972 in Ligovo, 9 miles west of St….
“Dear Vern, how are you doing, our friend? Recently we came from Hawaii where we visited Pearl Harbor Museum. We had great impressions about that and remembered you in regards to the aviation show which took place nearby in Honolulu. The touching story about your life rescuers, Russian female pilots during WWII, came to my…
Lying under a young maple tree growing opposite Delson Community Center, I’ve been waiting for a bus Delson-Montreal to return home from Mediterranean cruise to Calgary via Montreal. Janko was wandering about nearby. Looking at the picturesque foliage greeting me friendly and with breeze, nicely blowing to my face, I recollected the Pushkin’s beautiful verses:“An Oak…
The City of Calgary is organizing 144-th Canada Day celebrations on July 1, 2011 at many venues. We are on Prince’s Island Park. Listen to the song:“Tribue to Canada Day” Our pictures are to the left and to the right – me dancing and with the free hugs guys. Canada Day is Calgary’s largest single…
To attune your ear to the Western mood, listen to the music:“Grandma’s Courting Again” Wilf Carter Since last time in 2008 when we visited with Gleb the heritage Park in Calgary, many changes happened to be. To the left thelegacy of the Heritage Park and to the right photo of Janko just at the heritage…
As everyone sees that those are paraphrased verses of Great Russian poet Alexander Sergeyvich Pushkin (1799-1837) who started his novel in verse “Eugene Onegin” translated by Kozlov S.N., Moscow 1994, only he wrote about his uncle. Chapter one of it opens with “He hurries up to live, As well as he does to feel”, K….
Listen to the song: “Dear Mother of Mine” Dear Mother of Mine! Your grave is in Bryansk, Russia, with the inscription on the tomb: “Filina Maria Yakovlevna (1907-1985)”. On June 15 you would have been 104. I know for sure that the regular people do not live so long. But I am your daughter, that…
Watch the scene from Mariinsky Ballet “The Waltz of Flowers” (Nutcracker) Our first English teacher Doba Mikhailovna Einstein was a magician, and we, her students of Grade 5 of Bryansk All Girls’ School #1 even did not realize it. Look at her photo to the left and ours below. I counted honestly, we were 34…
James Holly was asked by Gleb upon arriving back from work : “What impression stayed with you the most about Canada? “The length of trains. Nowhere in the world I saw it before, Gleb.” Watch video:CPR train, downtown Calgary, 2007 “Did you count how many cars in that train, my friend?” “No, but it’s a lot.”…
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… …