RECENT TRAVEL

• Geneva (Switzerland, not upstate New York). You can read my notes on the trip, with many links to pictures. You can also view additional pictures (taken by Verner Egerland).
• Potsdam & Berlin: for the time being, the notes from this trip are only in Russian but I hope to make the English notes available soon...

VICTORIAN FAIRY PAINTING

Read my essay on the works of John Anster Fitzgerald "The Stuff that Dreams are Made of: John Anster Fitzgerald’s Dream Paintings".

FILMS

I greatly enjoy cinema. Check out the following films:

• Downfall (directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel)
• Rosenstrasse (directed by Margarethe von Trotta)
• Intimate Strangers (directed by Patrice Leconte)
• The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (directed by Ronald Neame)
• Mavahlatur ("The Seagull’s Laughter"; written and directed by Agust Gudmundsson)
• The Queen (directed by Stephen Frears)