Author Archives: Marina

Gogoliada 2009

March 5, 2009 – 9:14 am

The first of April 2009 is the day when the world celebrates two centuries of literature by Nikolai Gogol, author of the famous The Inspector-General, Taras Bulba, Dead Souls, and Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka. He was an ingenious yet enigmatic figure. Gogol was a constant resident of a mystical world, deprived of peace of mind. His characters – blacksmith Vakula, Cossack Taras Bulba, landowner Chichikov and petty clerk Hlestakov, have all become incarnations of human flaws and virtues, immortalising their creator.

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Stone Graves, orchids amid Granite

March 5, 2009 – 9:01 am

“This is the place where history comes to life”, a phrase acquires a new meaning here, in an area of 400 hectares called the Stone Graves nature reserve. The history of this place, perched on the edge of the grassland steppe between the Donetsk and Zaporozhye regions, goes back not decades, not even centuries but millions of years

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