Last year I sent to a literary competition the sketch "Seven jokes of my father". Entered the list of winners of a competition. This year the Almanac was issued in Publishing House of Maxim Burdin. Today I received the copies. It is the big thick collection of prose and verses - the Literary Almanac of Atypical Authors.
In the Almanac there are a lot of stories, verses from Russian-speaking authors from around the world. I wrote the sketch about the father in New Zealand, a year ago... To read further"

Hi everyone! I just returned from St. Petersburg and is full of emotions. I am always glad to happen in this city. But in this trip it surprised me so surprised. Weather was - teplyn. And it in September - whereas even in July it is impossible to be sure of anything there. In St. Petersburg it is always necessary to have at itself a raincoat and a jacket. Because even if left in the morning at a blaze of the sun, it is not a guarantee nothing...
And here not that the Indian summer - is simple summer in the heat. I had to take off tights and a sweatshirt, in them I would not survive... To read further"

Many years ago I moved to Moscow, then 8 years lived in New Zealand. And here returned to the city where lived important years of my life. Whether for a long time? I cannot answer yet.
Novosibirsk as well as other large cities of Russia in general became more more beautiful for these years. I will show some photo here.
In Novosibirsk will open the new Sports metro station soon... To read further"

It will be short history in photos. Just I climbed in the archive, and here that found. This photo from a last year's holiday. Here looked and as if again experienced those emotions. What interesting was a trip...
We with the husband went to the Arkhangelsk region. Except money for travel expenses, took the special banknote. Knew that we will be photographed with it there. That we will find those places, foreshortenings. With foreshortenings not especially it turned out. But as far as could, carried out conceived.
It is a monument to Peter the Great in Arkhangelsk... To read further"

Telling about the holiday, I showed the museum of satire and humour of Ostap Bender which visited in Kozmodemyansk. But the great schemer accompanied me further.
Even I do not know how so it turned out that for coincidence such, but Ostap Bender's image arose also in other cities of our cruise.
I show.
It is the embankment in Kozmodemyansk. Tremendous graffiti!
Installation in the museum of Kozmodemyansk. Recognizable scene.
And it is already a monument in Cheboksary. Ostap and Pussycat... To read further"

I already began to tell about the recent holiday. I want to continue.
So, Vasyuki. Certainly, this fictional name. But it is for certain known that Ilya Ilf, being a correspondent of the Moscow newspaper "Gudok", in the summer of 1925 traveled by steamship around Volga. Wrote some notes for the edition, and in passing, of course, noticed life and customs of natives of the Volga region. A lot of things from this were described then in the novel: places, characters, situations.
And so... To read further"

Holiday – great time. I only just depart from it. To horror there was no wish to come to work. And in the first days after return from a short, but fascinating, informative travel still it seems as shook me. And there, by motor ship, I did not notice rolling. Or rather, first felt and even reeled a little, walking up and down on the deck. And then walked, like on the ground.
Generally, I was in a cruise across Volga. And it was my first such experience. Earlier unless by motor ships took hour walks... To read further"

It happened to visit to me Ulyanovsk here. It is the city on Volga. As before - Simbirsk. It is known that Vladimir Ilyich's homeland. However, in the Simbirsk province many the glorified people were born. In particular, writers Ivan Goncharov and Nikolay Karamzin. The memory of these people is reflected in city monuments. Unusual city sculptures to me also remembered this city.
It is, perhaps, the most creative monument. He is known far outside Ulyanovsk... To read further"

I am already more than a month in Russia. Very powerful and positive impressions in general of Moscow, St. Petersburg, Donetsk, Rostov-on-Don. From people, from a set of positive changes, it is kind of contradictory sounded. After cozy and comfortable beautiful New Zealand, strangely enough, there was no stress.
The presentation of my book in the Pedant
With the St. Petersburg girlfriend
Master class in metaphorical cards in St. Petersburg
Catherine Palace in Pushkino
St. Petersburg sketches... To read further"

Hello all.
During the trips and travel only there is also time for articles and publications. I will have soon a period when has no time for therefore I write so far is written. Can whom I will lighten the mood.
There lives the husband's mother. I love her as native. This year on the 83rd year of life she, at last, retired. Before worked in State Department on work with unsuccessful children. About Sandra it is necessary to write the separate book. And here only strokes of our trip to the city where she lives many years... To read further"