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" ... And people saw that every sort of beauty, every sort of love was from the gods, and they became free and bold, and they grew WINGS." 🪽 ---- Mikhail Kuzmin from his novella Wings, 1906

#wings #novella #novel #mikhailkuzmin #quote #beauty #love #onbeauty #onlove #onloveandbeauty #thegods #russianwriter #russianliterature #russianauthor #russiannovelist #fiction #books #book #livres #mybookshelf

" ... And people saw that every sort of beauty, every sort of love was from the gods, and they became free and bold, and they grew WINGS." 🪽 ---- Mikhail Kuzmin from his novella Wings, 1906

#wings #novella #novel #mikhailkuzmin #quote #beauty #love #onbeauty #onlove #onloveandbeauty #thegods #russianwriter #russianliterature #russianauthor #russiannovelist #fiction #books #book #livres #mybookshelf

" ... And people saw that every sort of beauty, every sort of love was from the gods, and they became free and bold, and they grew WINGS." 🪽 ---- Mikhail Kuzmin from his novella Wings, 1906

#wings #novella #novel #mikhailkuzmin #quote #beauty #love #onbeauty #onlove #onloveandbeauty #thegods #russianwriter #russianliterature #russianauthor #russiannovelist #fiction #books #book #livres #mybookshelf

" ... And people saw that every sort of beauty, every sort of love was from the gods, and they became free and bold, and they grew WINGS." 🪽 ---- Mikhail Kuzmin from his novella Wings, 1906

#wings #novella #novel #mikhailkuzmin #quote #beauty #love #onbeauty #onlove #onloveandbeauty #thegods #russianwriter #russianliterature #russianauthor #russiannovelist #fiction #books #book #livres #mybookshelf

There is a reason why russian "classics" are so popular among western literature snobs
1) it is always about "deep" suffering and humiliation. Many think that it's a quality of "humanism",but really it's a testament to russian moral corruption, laziness, lack of will for change, that was normalized from generation to generation
2) it is far enough away to be exotic for a western reader, but white enough to not feel uncomfortable
3) imperial experience seeks imperial experience
#russianliterature

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/oct/07/the-pushkin-job-unmasking-the-thieves-behind-an-international-rare-books-heist

#library #literature #Russianliterature #culture #art #criminal

𝗥𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄: "𝗪𝗲" 𝗯𝘆 𝗬𝗲𝘃𝗴𝗲𝗻𝘆 𝗭𝗮𝗺𝘆𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗻 -

Early Soviet dystopia, the terror at the loss of humanity, the glorification of service to State, and a protagonist who may not want to be saved.

https://waywordsstudio.com/general/reviews/we-by-yevgeny-zamyatin/

#bookreviews #literature #books #bookworm #read #book #readreadread #yevgenyzamyatin #we #dystopia #sovietliterature #russianliterature #sciencefiction #sf #scifi

📚 Finished two great books this month:

📕 Fathers & Sons (1862) by Ivan Turgenev - explores the generational clash between fathers and their radical sons during a time of great social change in Russia.

📕 The Nine (2021) by Gwen Strauss - follows the escape of 9 women, resistance fighters, out of Nazi Germany

#fathersandsons #ivanturgenev #thenine #gwenstrauss #books #mybookshelf #mybooklist #readinglist #booklist #livres #buch #bücher #libros #resistancefighters #nonfiction #novel #russianliterature #literature

#darkacademia #russianliterature
#fydordostoevsky #nikoligogol #darkashthetic
#literature #poetry #philisophy #kafka
#ClassicLiterature #books #bookquotes #fyp
#existentialism @bookstodon

𝗥𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄: "𝗛𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝗮 𝗗𝗼𝗴" 𝗯𝘆 𝗠𝗶𝗸𝗵𝗮𝗶𝗹 𝗕𝘂𝗹𝗴𝗮𝗸𝗼𝘃 -

While not as fully realized as some of his other works, this novella still packs some creative and absurd punches at the early Soviet Union (and the rest of us) by offering a dog the physical attributes of humans and then poses the political question of who we are.

https://buff.ly/3WiowPS

#bookreviews #books #bookworm #mikhailbulgakov #heartofadog #russianliterature #sovietunion #satire #absurdism #allegory

https://bsky.app/profile/omdaru.bsky.social/post/3lbrnvvraok2w Anton Chekhov - Selected Omdaru stories - Google translated-RU-EN-DE-FR-EO.epub +mp3 text-to-speech audiobooks #chekhov

#russianliterature

#russianlanguage

#ESL

#Esperanto

#French

#German

#audiobooks

#texttospeech

https://russia-google-translated.blogspot.com/2024/11/it-became-shameful-to-be-russian.html
"It became shameful to be Russian. Mikhail Shishkin, "Essays on Russian Literature" #booksky #russianliterature #literature
#russianhistory #Russia #RussiaUkraine #war #empire #russianempire

I'm enjoying The Master and Margarita a lot more than I expected. I was just reading it to expand my cultural horizons because it's a classic, but it's actually really engrossing and often quite funny. I'm reading the Recorded Books audiobook, translation by Diana Burgin and Katherine Tiernan O'Connor, *excellently* narrated by George Guidall, who I am adding to my list of narrators who I will read a book I otherwise wouldn't be interested in, just to hear their performance. #literature #RussianLiterature #audiobook

Relived my adolescence this week by buying old X-men comics. Something I thought I was long over… anyway, how crazy is this little throwaway scene where a character’s homework comes to life and she finds herself in a Bulgakov novel? #xmen #comicbooks #bulgakov #russianliterature

📢 New Book Alert!

🚀 Explore 'Translating Russian Literature in the Global Context', ed. by Muireann Maguire & Cathy McAteer.

🌍 'Translating #RussianLiterature in the Global Context' examines the translation and reception of Russian literature as a world-wide process. This volume aims to provoke new debate about the continued currency of #Russian #literature as symbolic capital for international readers, in particular for nations seeking to create or consolidate cultural and political leverage in the so-called ‘World Republic of Letters’. It also seeks to examine and contrast the mechanisms of the translation and uses of #Russian #literature across the globe. This collection presents academic essays, grouped according to geographical location, by thirty-seven international scholars.

This volume will open up #Slavonic #Translation Studies for the general reader, the student of #ComparativeLiterature, and the academic scholar alike.

ACCESS NOW: https://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0340

There‘s a bunch of book thieves going around prestigious #libraries and swapping #Pushkin #FirstEditions for (so the library officials say) high quality facsimiles. The @stabi_berlin
has been targeted , also national libraries in Poland and the Baltic states.
It’s a wild story, and the forgers’ skills seem to be very remarkable.
#artcrimes #russianliterature #forgeries #antiquarianbooks
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/a79836a3-8c74-4db9-882b-690a074763f5

There‘s a bunch of book thieves going around prestigious #libraries and swapping #Pushkin #FirstEditions for (so the library officials say) high quality facsimiles. The @stabi_berlin
has been targeted , also national libraries in Poland and the Baltic states.
It’s a wild story, and the forgers’ skills seem to be very remarkable.
#artcrimes #russianliterature #forgeries #antiquarianbooks
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/a79836a3-8c74-4db9-882b-690a074763f5

There‘s a bunch of book thieves going around prestigious #libraries and swapping #Pushkin #FirstEditions for (so the library officials say) high quality facsimiles. The @stabi_berlin
has been targeted , also national libraries in Poland and the Baltic states.
It’s a wild story, and the forgers’ skills seem to be very remarkable.
#artcrimes #russianliterature #forgeries #antiquarianbooks
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/a79836a3-8c74-4db9-882b-690a074763f5

There‘s a bunch of book thieves going around prestigious #libraries and swapping #Pushkin #FirstEditions for (so the library officials say) high quality facsimiles. The @stabi_berlin
has been targeted , also national libraries in Poland and the Baltic states.
It’s a wild story, and the forgers’ skills seem to be very remarkable.
#artcrimes #russianliterature #forgeries #antiquarianbooks
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/a79836a3-8c74-4db9-882b-690a074763f5

There‘s a bunch of book thieves going around prestigious #libraries and swapping #Pushkin #FirstEditions for (so the library officials say) high quality facsimiles. The @stabi_berlin
has been targeted , also national libraries in Poland and the Baltic states.
It’s a wild story, and the forgers’ skills seem to be very remarkable.
#artcrimes #russianliterature #forgeries #antiquarianbooks
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/a79836a3-8c74-4db9-882b-690a074763f5

I desperately want to read a novel or longer piece of prose - basically just decent literature - about the current (post-Feb/2022) situation in #Russia. Nuanced enough overall mood, zeitgeist. I have not heard of any examples. For two years I read all kinds of news, articles, expert analyses, reports etc, but they do not contain what I need at all.

Some might say "this is not a time for writing literature", but I do not believe it.

#russianliterature

Review of "Fathers and Sons" (4 stars): Fathers and Sons by Turgenev: Portrait of a self-proclaimed Nihilist

https://bookwyrm.social/user/Narayoni/review/3083682

A question of Morality: A reflection on The Brothers Karamazov

I found that this book is philosophically dense, emotionally evocative and thought provoking. And it is a page turner in addition to being a whodunnit!. Now one of the things I love about this book and of other Dostoevsky books that I have read, is the brilliant characterisation. The brothers in the title refer to Dmitri Fyodorovich (Mitya, Mitka, Mitenka, Mitri Fyodorovich) the eldest, Ivan Fyodorovich (Vanya, Vanka, Vanechka), and Alexie Fyodorovich (Alyosha, Alyoshka, Alyoshechka, Alexeichik, Lyosha, Lyoshenka), the youngest. Alexie is frequently referred to as Alyosha and Alyoshka throughout the book. The major conflict in the book is the tension existing between Dmitri Fyodorovich and his father Fyodor Pavlovich as a result of a love triangle between them and Grushenka; and also due to money matters. There is also something of a love triangle involving Dmitri, Ivan and Dmitri’s fiance Katerina. Now Fyodor is somewhat of a colourful character, to say the least. He is a landowner with a particular reputation of being a “muddleheaded madcap” (but not stupid) and a sensualist. He was quite notorious as a husband and a father. His first wife got fed up and ran away with someone else, abandoning the three-year-old Mitya, while his second wife died soon after giving birth to Ivan and Alyosha. He was known to openly engage in orgies with other women in his home even when his wife was present. As a father, Fyodor promptly forgot about the existence of his sons, both after his first wife left him and when his second wife died. In fact, it was because of a faithful servant Grigory taking care of Mitya, that he didn't starve and had clothes on his body.. Ivan and Alyosha were also taken care of by Grigory, but they were later taken in by distant relatives of their mother’s benefactress. A few lines about the benefactress’ actions after their mom died: "They say that the moment she saw him, without any explanations, she at once delivered him two good, resounding slaps and jerked him three times by his forelock; then, without adding a word, she made straight for the cottage and the two boys. Seeing at a glance that they were unwashed and in dirty shirts, she gave one more slap to Grigory himself and announced to him that she was taking both children home with her, then carried them outside just as they were, wrapped them in a plaid, put them in the carriage, and took them to her own town." (just included these lines because I think it is hilarious). As a result, both Ivan and Alyosha received some amount of care and education, unlike Mitya who was transferred from one place to another with his education remaining incomplete. When the action starts, we come to know that Mitya is back in the village, demanding his father should give him his money left by his mother. Here it is to be noted that his first wife had money, while his second did not. Therefore, Mitya has grown up with expectations of getting his mother’s money. Now Ivan is also in town, visiting Fyodor, while Alyosha is a novice in the village monastery. There he has grown closer to the elder Zosima, who is his greatest friend and guide at this point. Zosima’s health is declining, and he may die soon. Now, Mitya has another complication in his life. He has fallen in love with a woman called Grushenka, who is known to be the merchant Samsonov’s kept woman while being engaged to another woman called Katerina. Mitya’s father Fyodor is also in love with Grushenka and is actively pursuing her for her hand in marriage. And Ivan is in love with Katerina. When Mitya is first introduced, he seems to be an irresponsible, passionate wastrel lacking impulse control. However, as I got to know him better, he came across as someone who is self aware enough to know his own faults and issues and wants to do better. Initially, he doesn't come across as someone I would be able to respect much, but he turns out to be a complex human being with his heart in the right place. In the first scene where Grushenka is introduced, she comes across as this typical “vampish” other woman who we later get to know as this wonderfully complex woman who has her own thoughts and agency. This is one of the things I love about this book: the characters feel like real living, breathing people I care about. Another character worth mentioning is the lackey Smerdyakov, who is rumoured to be the illegitimate son of Fyodor and lives as the cook in the house. He is sly, manipulative and always tries to make people believe he is a fool while trying to outsmart them in the meanwhile. As the action progresses, simmering tensions start to build up and slowly lead to a boiling point, culminating in a gruesome murder.

Some of the themes explored in the book are the conflict of faith (or a lack thereof) and the question of morality and free will. This is portrayed by the contrasting aspects of faith and unbelief in the persons of Alyosha and Ivan, Zosima and the Inquisitor. In the tavern conversation in the first half of the book, Ivan opens up to Alyosha and tries to explain to his “little brother” his beliefs. Very endearingly he tells him that "I want to get close to you, Alyosha, because I have no friends. I want to try." He explains that it’s impossible for him to believe a merciful, benevolent God can create this world with all its sufferings. Ivan refuses to accept that all sinners with their "villainy" and "animal cruelty" are ever redeemable. He says: "Tell me straight out, I call on you—answer me: imagine that you yourself are building the edifice of human destiny with the object of making people happy in the finale, of giving them peace and rest at last, but for that you must inevitably and unavoidably torture just one tiny creature, that same child who was beating her chest with her little fist, and raise your edifice on the foundation of her unrequited tears—would you agree to be the architect on such conditions? Tell me the truth.” He posits that the established religious order is corrupt and no longer serves God, but the devil, through the allegory of the Inquisitor (it is a long story that I am not repeating here). He further goes on to say that mankind in general cannot deal with free will and free conscience; they need someone to tell them what is right and what needs to be done, which is what established religions provide them with. So, as there is no God and no life after death, he says that, ‘If there is no immortality of the soul, then there is no virtue, and therefore everything is permitted.’ Now this tavern conversation has left quite an impression on me since I, too, do not believe in the existence of any God, singular or plural and a lot of what Ivan says also resonates with me. However, I have never thought that there is any connection between the existence of God, virtue and morality. I do understand Ivan’s point even though I do not agree with it. I wonder what do people who believe in God think of morality? Is morality contingent on the need for being virtuous? I believe morality should be unconditional and not dependent on the necessity of being virtuous. Anyways I loved that this book made me think so much.

The ending of the book is bittersweet to say the least. The book is well-paced right till the end. However, there are parts (just a few) of the book where it feels as if it's slightly going on a side track. To reiterate, I loved this book and it is now one of my favourites. I will definitely reread it in the future.

#books #fyodordostoevsky #thebrotherskaramazov #russianliterature #literature

(comment on The Brothers Karamazov)

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https://russian-world-citizens.blogspot.com/2023/04/selected-books-in-russian-google.html Selected books in Russian - Google translated into English in 2023 Updated 02/09/2023-

MY POOR, POOR MASTER -versions - Mikhail Bulgakov.epub

"MY POOR, POOR MASTER ..."
Complete collection of editions and versions of the novel "The Master and Margarita" #googletranslated #russianliterature #bulgakov #themasterandmargarita #books #bookstodon

https://chekhovwrites.blogspot.com/2022/12/19-30-1875-1904-epub.html Complete Works by Anton Chekhov with comments in 30 volumes - Google translated into English in 2023 - NEW! 03.04.2023

As far as I know, this is the first translation

of ALL 30 volumes of Chekhov's Collected Works into English,

although translated by Google in 2023, still perfectly readable!

Chekhov-01-30-Collected works - Volumes 1-30.epub #Chekhov #AntonChekhov #literature #russianLiterature #RussianHistory #RussianEmpire #books #bookstodon #stories #drama

https://chekhovwrites.blogspot.com/2022/12/19-30-1875-1904-epub.html New ! 02/04/2023 - Anton #Chekhov - Google translated- download epub ebooks

Chekhov-01-06-1880-1887-Stories.epub

Chekhov-07-10-1888-1903-stories.epub

Volumes 19-30. Letters 1875-1904.epub

As far as I know, this is the first collection of all 4494 Chekhov's letters in English and all early and late stories, although translated into English by Google in 2023, still perfectly readable! #AntonChekhov #RussianLiterature #RussianHistory #RussianEmpire #letters #stories

https://chekhovwrites.blogspot.com/2022/12/19-30-1875-1904-epub.html Volumes 19-30. Letters 1875-1904 - Anton Pavlovich Chekhov.epub - Letters and stories by Anton #Chekhov - Google translated from Complete works with comments in 30 volumes - NEW! 31.03.2023
As far as I know, this is the first collection of all 4494 Chekhov's letters in English, although translated into English by Google in 2023, still perfectly readable! #russianLiterature #russianHistory #letters #googletranslated

Is Nikolai Leskov about to get his due in the English-language world? Yelena Furman
writes about this overlooked master: https://thebaffler.com/latest/so-the-story-goes-furman #RussianLiterature #LiteratureInTranslation #NikolaiLeskov

In the Washington Post, Sophie Pinkham writes about “Marlene Dietrich’s favorite writer, the Russian-Ukrainian-Polish-Turkish Konstantin Paustovsky, who witnessed WW1, the revolution, and the civil war but never lost his eye for the beauty of the natural world.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/books/2023/02/10/konstantin-paustovsky-story-life/ #MarleneDietrich #KonstantinPaustovsky #russianliterature #ww1Lit

https://rusa-esperanta.blogspot.com/2023/01/esperantigita-de-guglo-en-2023-google.html Esperantigita de Guglo en 2023- Google translated into Esperanto - Majstro kaj Margarita - Mihail Bulgakov-kursive-cenzuritaj vortoj.epub " Mi, hegemono, diris, ke la templo de la malnova kredo disfalos kaj kreiĝos nova templo de la vero.

Kial vi, vagabondo rakontas pri la vero, pri kiu vi ne scias? Kio estas vero?

La vero estas, antaŭ ĉio, ke via kapo doloras kaj doloras tiel forte, ke vi malkuraĝe pensas pri morto. #esperanto #googletranslated #russianLiterature

https://rusa-esperanta.blogspot.com/2023/01/esperantigita-de-guglo-en-2023-google.html Doktoro Jhivago - Boris #Pasternak -Esperantigita de Guglo.epub #Esperanto #GoogleTranslated #russianLiterature "Jarcentoj kaj generacioj libere spiris nur post Kristo. Nur post li la vivo komenciĝis en la idaro, kaj homo mortas ne sur la strato sub barilo, sed en sia propra historio, meze de laboro, dediĉita al venkado de morto...

“At its best, ‘The Story of a Life’ rivals any autobiography in world literature. Its hero is imagination itself. While the Soviets professed absolute certainty regarding all important questions of life, Paustovsky detected mystery, complexity and hidden poetry everywhere.”

Gary Saul Morson raves about Douglas Smith's translation of Konstantin Paustovsky's Story of a Life in The Wall Street Journal
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-story-of-a-life-book-review-uncovering-the-glory-of-a-russian-writer-11675441910
#RussianLiterature #memoir #KonstantinPaustovsky #LitInTranslation

https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vSGm-12lvpoD1hOm5DS2NcKWh0IlF1eaav5JFilhIkarzQyvE2eQTHK2rWFQYBOXooOzFhOc-lI-zJv/pub Z-Zombie or how the corpse of the Soviet world came to life - Vladimir #Sorokin, Andrey Arkhangelsky . Google - translated from Svoboda.org 23.01.2023 "You said that the corpse of the #Soviet world was not buried in the 1990s and continued to rot in the corner all these years. But now the corpse got up and went to kill. Z- #Zombies ... And now he is destroying other people's cities, threatening the world with a nuclear club. #putinism #russia #russianLiterature

https://chekhovwrites.blogspot.com/2022/12/19-30-1875-1904-epub.html Letters and stories by Anton #Chekhov - #GoogleTranslated from Complete works with comments in 30 volumes New 08.01.2023- Chekhov-07-10-1888-1903-stories-comments-Google translated.epub "…They said that a new face appeared on the embankment: a lady with a dog. Dmitri Dmitritch Gurov, who had already lived in Yalta for two weeks and was used to it, also began to take an interest in new faces... from "Lady with a dog" - #russianLiterature #translation #letters #stories

https://chekhovwrites.blogspot.com/2022/12/19-30-1875-1904-epub.html NEW! 29.12.2022
19-#Letters-1875-1886 - Anton #Chekhov-#GoogleTranslated.#epub #ebook download - to be continued.. "4. M. M. CHEKHOV January 1,1877 Taganrog. Exactly 12 o'clock,1877. Night.
Dear Brother Misha! …There is a crack, and along with the smoke the following words fly straight to Moscow: “Let this shot dissipate like smoke, all your hardships and let peace and money come to replace them!”
#nonfiction #russianLiterature #books #literature
https://mastodon.social/@omdaru/109595791030320331

"And still life goes on in Chekhov’s garden, where it’s always a fine day for hanging yourself, and somebody somewhere is playing the guitar. ...Now the samovar has almost gone cold, and frost has touched the cherry blossoms. Dr. #Chekhov, loyal custodian of the human body, you who could look in the ear of an idle man and see an entire universe—where are you now?... The Possessed by #ElifBatuman #nonfiction #books #Russia #RussianLiterature #bookstodon #literature
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6763627-the-possessed

"Chekhov’s strange, coded works almost force us to sound them for hidden meanings... we don’t want to miss the clues that Chekhov has scattered about his garden and covered with last year’s leaves. These leaves are fixtures of Chekhov’s world ...and exemplify Chekhov’s way of endowing some small quiet natural phenomenon with #metaphorical meaning... Reading #Chekhov: A Critical Journey by #JanetMalcolm #nonfiction #bookstodon #books #RussianLiterature #essay #literature https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1107183.Reading_Chekhov

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3aXigzuanYs #RussianPoetry- #Pushkin -#Akhmatova -#Pasternak-#Tsvetaeva-#Mandelstam- rus-eng mp3 #parallelText #podcasting #audiobook #RussianLiterature #intercultural #poetry #translation #AndreyKneller

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3aXigzuanYs #RussianPoetry- #Pushkin -#Akhmatova -#Pasternak-#Tsvetaeva-#Mandelstam- rus-eng mp3 #parallelText #podcasting #audiobook #RussianLiterature #intercultural #poetry #translation #AndreyKneller

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3aXigzuanYs #RussianPoetry- #Pushkin -#Akhmatova -#Pasternak-#Tsvetaeva-#Mandelstam- rus-eng mp3 #parallelText #podcasting #audiobook #RussianLiterature #intercultural #poetry #translation #AndreyKneller

Currently reading: #dostoevsky #crimeandpunishment #pevearandvolokhonsky #russianliterature #raskolnikov

Currently reading: #dostoevsky #crimeandpunishment #pevearandvolokhonsky #russianliterature #raskolnikov

My recent #7books - #literature for your #soul and #spirituality

In Memory of Memory by #MariaStepanova

The #Socrates Express: In Search of Life Lessons from Dead #Philosophers by #EricWeiner

The Secret of the Kingdom and The Egyptian by #MikaWaltari

Laurus by Eugene #Vodolazkin

The Song of Achilles by #MadelineMiller

Memoirs of Hadrian by Marguerite #Yourcenar

https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/12575683-vlad-vorobev #historicalFiction #nonfiction #memory #philosophy #AncientWorld #RussianLiterature @bookstodon

So, I wrote a bio and #introduction that was accurate but vanilla. Here’s some detail: #Family,#AltCountry,#Americana,#Bebop,#CarribeanMusic,#HardBop,#FolkMusic,#JazzFusion,#LatinJazz,#RnB,#RnR,#RussianHistory,#RussianLiterature,#Comedy,#DisasterFilms,#SeriousFilms,#Demography,#Ethnography,#Archeology,#AsianFood,#PoliticalPhilosophy,#HighFidelity,#Coffee,#Whiskey,#DarkBeer,#Aperitifs,#JujuGum,#Deescalation,#ComparativeReligion,#HistoryOfReligion,#Ancestry,#LettingPeopleAlone,#Nature,#Aesthetics

So, I wrote a bio and #introduction that was accurate but vanilla. Here’s some detail: #family,#altcountry,#americana,#bebop,#carribeanmusic,#hardbop,#folkmusic,#jazzfusion,#latinjazz,#RnB,#RnR,#russianhistory,#russianliterature,#comedy,#disasterfilms,#seriousfilms,#demography,#ethnography,#archeology,#asianfood,#politicalphilosophy,#highfidelity,#coffee,#whiskey,#darkbeer,#aperitifs,#jujugum,#deescalation,#comparativereligion,#historyofreligion,#ancestry,#lettingpeoplealone,#nature,#aesthetics