Day of Knowledge

This is Sept. 1 at Sveta's school. It's celebrated everywhere. The little guys on the stage are in their fist year. Someone rings the first bell. And then Mary Poppins comes out and dances for a while. It's an interesting ritual. At the end of the year, an 11th grader carries one of the first graders around the school.

Blonde inside and out

September 12th 2009
Fall has begun and everything is more or less in order. Sveta got her new passport -- she's now Svetlana Rasmussen. And I visited the Russian proctologist at long last. I was supposed to go in June, but I had more pressing things to attend to, like sleeping and running the cat around the sofa. The clinic was typical with peeling paint and tired-looking people crammed in the hallways. There� ... 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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