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Elena Shvarts

“It’s fun to transport your life from seventies Russia to Ancient Rome, as it were – everything becomes funnier and prettier.”

- Elena Shvarts
And my story begins in Russia…

And my story begins in Russia…

Posted on Sep 15, 2016 in Uncategorized

I’ve just got back to London after a month in Russia. The picture above is the front of Finlandskiy Station, St. Petersburg, where in October 1917 Vladimir Lenin rolled in to begin the Revolution that rocked the world. For the first three weeks I lived just off the famous Nevskiy Prospekt, St. Petersburg, where I studied Russian for […]