Postcard from Bishkek

Over the New Year we got a piece of surprising news … Some enterprising thieves decided to help themselves to a painting hanging in the Museum of Fine Arts.  It seems that a corporate event was being held in the Museum and, once it was over, the curators noticed that a painting, (Crimean Seascape painted […]

In Russia, today is Andrei Rublev Day … dedicated to the memory of the famous fifteenth century icon painter. We don’t know much about his life.  We don’t know, for example, where or when he was born, (it is assumed that it was in the 1940s),  we do know that he died in Moscow on […]

Those who have been checking out my postcards for any length will probably have worked out that I have a fascination with the calendar.  One of my pet sayings is: “Everyday is a special day … for someone” and I collect what one of friends once called “crazy days”.  Today is one of those days: […]