Bryusov – Khodasevich

The first time I saw him he was about twenty-four and I was eleven and studying at the gymnasium with … More

Aux larmes, Citoyens! (2000)

By Marjorie FARQUHARSON There is a new way of popping the question in France since 15 November. ‘Sign a Solidarity … More

Marjorie was born in Glasgow on the 11 August 1953, one of Nellie Milne and Alexander Farquharson’s three children. When … More

LESSONS At each opportunity,You become lost in your own plain thought and fantasies;Either listening to the melting rain outsideOr mildly … More

I recently spent time in a Moscow hospital. The medicine was plentiful, the care round-the-clock, and as a foreigner I … More

President Putin has hinted at an ‘asymmetrical’ response if the USA stations part of its Ballistic Missile Defence Network in … More

I first noticed there was something wrong when I was coming back from a walk along the Ladebraes. I had … More

By Marjorie FARQUHARSON Well, I really liked Igor Anatolievich. He could read a cloud formation as clearly as the expression … More

When you see what happened to them in the 1990s, the harsh years some spent as prisoners in previous decades … More