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Mitrofan Pyatnitsky bust and monument, Voronezh | Russian Culture in Landmarks

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Russian Culture in Landmarks. About John Freedman’s blog. Mitrofan Pyatnitsky bust and monument, Voronezh. June 25, 2015. Click on photos to enlarge. Pardon me if I repeat myself. But there are times I think that, were it not for this blog, I would be completely and utterly ignorant. Doing the little bit of research I do for many of my posts, I have learned things I had never dreamed of. And it’s happened again today. Twelve Russian Folk Songs. One final thing. Take a look at the last two photos....You a...

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Michael Chekhov home, Los Angeles | Russian Culture in Landmarks

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Russian Culture in Landmarks. About John Freedman’s blog. Michael Chekhov home, Los Angeles. July 24, 2015. Click on photos to enlarge. Folks in the western hemisphere know him as Michael Chekhov. His fame at home in Russia is still so strong that he will always be known there by his given name of Mikhail. Michael or Mikhail, this nephew of Anton Chekhov remains one of the most revered figures of Russian theater 60 years after he died in Beverly Hills, CA. To this day his book. Respectively. The succ...

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Lubyanka headquarters, Moscow | Russian Culture in Landmarks

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Russian Culture in Landmarks. About John Freedman’s blog. Lubyanka headquarters, Moscow. June 19, 2015. Click on photo to enlarge. What the hell is this doing here? Well, some of Russia’s greatest artists were persecuted here in the basement or other places. Some, maybe many, were tortured or shot here. This building – figuratively and in fact – ended the careers and/or lives of many of Russia’s greatest, most talented citizens. According to Patrick M. O’Neal’s book. Great World Writers: Twentieth Century.

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Fyodor Dostoevsky monument, Moscow | Russian Culture in Landmarks

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Russian Culture in Landmarks. About John Freedman’s blog. Fyodor Dostoevsky monument, Moscow. June 13, 2015. Click on photos to enlarge. Is it something awful? Is that the dead pawnbroker lying in a pool of blood down there, or is it Raskolnikov refusing to repent? Why has Dostoevsky’s drape slipped off his left shoulder? Is he in an asylum? Is this a hospital gown? Well, you see, Merkurov was working his way right into the essence of Dostoevsky. Which is why, when you spend time with this work of ar...

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Chekhov, Mayakovsky, Uspensky hotel plaque, Voronezh | Russian Culture in Landmarks

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Russian Culture in Landmarks. About John Freedman’s blog. Memorial Plaques to Writers. Chekhov, Mayakovsky, Uspensky hotel plaque, Voronezh. June 17, 2015. Click on photos to enlarge. 8221; Chekhov’s father and paternal grandfather, incidentally, were born in the Voronezh area. They famously were serfs there in the household of Alexander Chertkov, a well-known archaeologist, historian, book collector and publisher. The Lady and the Hooligan. Fyodor Dostoevsky monument, Moscow. Leave a Reply Cancel reply.

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Musin-Pushkin house, Moscow | Russian Culture in Landmarks

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Russian Culture in Landmarks. About John Freedman’s blog. Musin-Pushkin house, Moscow. July 16, 2015. Click on photos to enlarge. Lay of Igor’s Campaign. A text that is, or is not, the oldest known text in a Slavonic language lacking elements of Church Slavonic. The Lay of Igor’s Campaign. But enough of that! I am not writing about. The Lay of Igor’s Campaign. The Lay of Igor’s Campaign. Along with the thousands of other rare manuscripts collected (? Lay of Igor’s Campaign. Real or was it not? Sitting in...

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Andrei Platonov plaque, Voronezh train station | Russian Culture in Landmarks

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Russian Culture in Landmarks. About John Freedman’s blog. Memorial Plaques to Writers. Andrei Platonov plaque, Voronezh train station. June 3, 2015. Click on photos to enlarge. There is a line (there are many) that my wife Oksana and I frequently quote from Nikolai Erdman’s play. And mailmen want to read about mailmen! Railway workers want to read about railways! Who knows what they talked about? Platonov’s father Platon Klimentov worked as a mechanic on the railroad. One day, when Andrei was a...Platono...

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Osip Mandelshtam monument, Voronezh | Russian Culture in Landmarks

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Russian Culture in Landmarks. About John Freedman’s blog. Osip Mandelshtam monument, Voronezh. July 14, 2015. Click on photos to enlarge. A sculpture, if it’s any good, is always something that exists in a symbiotic relationship with its surroundings. And that sense of open vulnerability combined with a seeming indifference around it gives this sculpture a truly devastating effect. I was barely able to keep my composure by the time I was taking my last photos. I like the fact that it was put up. 8217; I ...

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Alexander Pushkin birthplace, Moscow | Russian Culture in Landmarks

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Russian Culture in Landmarks. About John Freedman’s blog. Memorial Plaques to Writers. Alexander Pushkin birthplace, Moscow. June 23, 2015. Click on photos to enlarge. So, although it may be slightly confusing, we can, indeed, say what day, what date, Pushkin was born. The question of where that happened, the bust and plaque here notwithstanding, are another thing altogether. Vershinin recalls how he lived at one time on Nemetskaya Street. It’s a nice little added bit of color.). To cut to the chase I wi...

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Alexei Koltsov monument, Voronezh | Russian Culture in Landmarks

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Russian Culture in Landmarks. About John Freedman’s blog. Alexei Koltsov monument, Voronezh. June 5, 2015. Click on photos to enlarge. Does this make me rethink anything I have said up to now? No, it doesn’t. I look at this thing from left to right and top to bottom, over and over again, and I only see an admittedly exaggerated, heroic monument to the so-called “people’s” or “folk” poet Alexei Koltsov. It all looks very organic and germane to me. 8221; I am quoting this from a biographical website. 8221;...