Tag Archives: Russia

Photo of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn by Mikhail Evstafiev, 1994

Russian writer and Nobel prize winner Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn looks out from a train, in Vladivostok, summer 1994, before departing on a journey across Russia.  Solzhenitsyn returned to Russia after nearly 20 years in exile.



Photo of Arkhip Kuindzhi’s residence, Saint Petersburg, Russia

House #16 on Malyj Prospect, Vasilyevsky Island.  Unknown photographer, photo taken before 1913.

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Throwback Thursday: Ronald Reagan tells jokes about Russia.

Here’s a montage of an American president — and a Republican — making jokes at the expense of the Soviet Union.  The one about the three dogs is my favorite.

The Republican Party was a different organization in the 1980’s, ladies and gentlemen.  It was a different time.

 

“A Kolkhoz Celebration,” Sergey Gerasimov, 1937

Oil on canvas.  The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia.

Source: http://russianartgallery.org/

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