December has a special meaning (kind of) for Eastern Siberia (the region of the middle of Siberia, not the Far East), if not just for Irkutsk. For better or for worse, it has nothing to do with the Mandy Moore song (blog post’s title) or the Disney movie Anastasia about the last Russian tsar, in [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Revolution’
Week 13: Once upon a December (+Quotables)
Posted: December 4, 2009 in Иркутск, QuotableTags: cold, Decembrists, friends, Pushkin, Quotable, research symposium, Revolution, teachers, the color green, Volkonskii
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Happy Day of the Revolution!
Posted: November 7, 2009 in Иркутск, Holidays & TraditionTags: Audrey Hepburn, holiday, Revolution
As we learned on Tuesday, the day before Wed., November 4, the National Day of Agreement? Peace?, no one really knows what the November 4 holiday is for. People just know that it was created since the fall of the USSR to replace the other, communist-celabratory holiday, today, November 7, the Day of the Great [...]
Train game, and talk over ‘tee’
Posted: October 14, 2009 in ИркутскTags: Bolshevik confiscations, host fam, Revolution, t-ball, tea, train
Tatyana Eduardovna, perhaps my only hope for survival in this country, sadly, has left on the train for a few weeks to help their daughter care for her new son/their grandson. Like I told my parents, she promised that she’d be back in 2-3 weeks, “soon enough,” and that I’d be fine under the care [...]
