While life since the fall of Communism in 1991 has gotten more complicated for many Russians, it has gotten easier for visitors to Moscow. Amenities (like supermarkets and washers and dryers and even sponges, mops and other cleaning supplies) that weren’t so readily available just a decade ago are now everywhere. On the down side,… Read More
Author: Peter Pozefsky
Trip to Moscow
Yesterday I visited an old friend, Devochka s persikami (Girl With Peaches), one of my favorite paintings at Moscow’s Tretiakov Gallery. Given the serenity of the canvases that Valentin Serov (1865-1911) painted in the late 19th and early 20th century, it’s hard to imagine that Russia was only a few years away from the violent… Read More