notes of a russian librarian in usa: August 2005

August 29, 2005

August 26, 2005

September 16, 2005 @ 7 pm (Friday)
Russian Poetry Night

At Chelsee's Coffee Shop & More 533 N. Trade Street
in Art District - Downtown Winston-Salem

Richard Schneider
(Wake Forest University)

will recite poems by Marina Tsvetaeva and Osip Mandelshtam in Russian and his own translations of Russian poetry into English.

Olga Zhitomirskaya-Muller
(St.Petersburg, Russia)

will recite poems by Joseph Brodsky in Russian and English as well as her own poetry

Art exhibit “Russian Butterflies”
by Anatoly Kudravcev-Kemeshes
on display at Chelsee’s September 1-30, 2005

In partnership with the Forsyth County Public Library.
Come and join us for a cup of coffee, poetry and art!

August 04, 2005

gift

келья стaрца Иосифа на Афоне (from valaam.ru)

"The riches of our Lord are many, but unfortunately there are few heirs.
To inherit them requires a bloody struggle,
but here there is only laziness..."

Elder Joseph the Hesychast
Monastic Wisdom: The Letters of Elder Joseph the Hesychast.
Florence, Arizona: St Anthony’s Greek Orthodox Monastery, 1999.
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