Prolegomena and obstetrics...
14/12/2023
At the beginning... (circumnavigation...) - video in French (sorry - we work ob the translation...)
Travelogue
( By side roads... )
"But for me, it is an aptitude of my sensitivity, the aptitude to sense the diverse, that I establish as an aesthetic principle of my knowledge of the world."
(V. Segalen, Essay on exoticism.)
Question for a "Trivial Pursuit", or a TV game show...
Geography... (With the North Sea...)
25/09/2023
View of Yalta and the Black Sea from Ai Petri.
To offer to whoever you want, or to yourself !... Urgently ! Mutual Aid: A factor of Evolution by Peter Kropotkin (Пётр Алексеевич Кропоткин).
The (so-called) Chronicle of Nestor...
27/08/2023
Literature - History (and story)
Word - Гигиена (Guiguiéna*)
18/08/2023
Word - Слово (and anthropological experience...)
Could "Olivier Salad" (Салат оливье) be a Belgian-Russian salad ?...
Known internationally (and often "adapted" to local taste and resources) under the name "Russian salad", it remains, among other things, an essential dish for New Year's celebrations in Russia, where it still bears the name of its most famous interpreter...
From Карандаш to Caran d’Ache...
22/07/2023
Карандаш (karandash): Russian word coming from the Turkish karadaş, formed from kara = black and daş = stone (same origin as in the Tatar qara taş = graphite). Карандаш = pencil.
Word - Город (Gorad)
14/07/2023
Город (Gorad) = City. Comes from the Norse Gardr, which means "enclosure". Thus, the Vikings called early Russia "Gardariki", literally "the land of enclosures".
