Behemoth and Koroviev

Far more interesting for me was the little shrine to Mikhail Bulgakov in his old apartment. The Master and Margarita is one of those books that never leaves my mind, and the same holds for many of its fans. The whole place was a joy to visit.

Moscow and Astrakhan 2016

November 4th 2016
The last leg of a trip that had started mid-September meant heading out to Astrakhan; near mouth of the Caspian Sea. Yes, once again this visit continued a healthy theme of oddball conference spots, this time to talk about the Arctic. What's in Astrakhan? As it happens, not much. There's a nice Kremlin (no, not that one) dating back to Ivan the Terrible's conquest of the region, but I think I w ... read more

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Founded in the 12th century, the Principality of Muscovy, was able to emerge from over 200 years of Mongol domination (13th-15th centuries) and to gradually conquer and absorb surrounding principalities. In the early 17th century, a new Romanov Dynas... ... read more

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