***** Foolish boy in fresh snow walks timidly. Brings melancholy and beauty to my heart his homeless body. And I try to understand these steps role and significance, Wanting to coincide, at least for a moment, with divine shadow. ***** Beautiful dove on the cross, And the evening of hot June, And tobacco smoke in the dark, And the thin profile of the new moon, When you go out to the balcony With a glass of sweet tokai From the cramped room where I sleep A naked lover was taken.

“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God...” Gospel of John When a skilled man became an upright man, and he, in turn, a rational man, the need arose for various symbolic designations and thought forms. These markings first began to appear as simple geometric designs scratched on sea shells or painted with ocher on stone, then evolved into more subtle images, and then took shape as writing.

Marriage, being a social institution, is an inert and rigid formation, but the attitude towards it in society is quite variable. For example, half a century ago, marriage was considered an obligatory element of social recognition, and then in the mass consciousness it turned into a kind of formality (external and alien to relationships). Today I would say that for most, marriage is just one of the options or forms of realizing a serious relationship.

Local historian, founder of the “Make it clear” foundation Galina Filimonova talks with historian and essayist Kirill Kobrin about historical heritage, village traditions in an urban environment and the experience of describing a single Russian city with a million population. Psychogeographic drift. Nizhny Novgorod. April 2015. Photo by Alexander Kuritsyn.

I decided to devote this week to watching good Russian films, and at first “Another Year” seemed to me like just another film - yes, good, but about which ... it is not written. This film fell into me quietly, without tossing and turning, almost with teeth against the wall , it fell into me - to live out : to slowly be erased from memory. That is what I thought. But that was not the case. A week later, I found myself constantly remembering...

I'll leave, I'll leave, at dawn, In the breeze, I'll rush off to the Siberian tundra. ...My dominion in Siberia is eternal (Alexander Ostrovsky “Snow Maiden”) The internal energy of a body is the sum of the energies of the molecules that make up the body. Every molecule moves and therefore has mechanical energy. This energy depends on the mass of the molecule, but even more on the speed of its movement. And the sum of all the energies of all molecules is the internal energy.

Naum Korzhavin. Photo: http://www.novayagazeta.ru/ In April 2016, the Russian Poet Prize was awarded to Naum Korzhavin. This decision entailed a lot of statements - mostly critical. Not wanting to comment on these statements, I, however, consider it necessary to tell those who do not know who Korzhavin is. At Sigma, I gratefully publish part of my lecture, which I gave in November 2014 in Berlin. The lecture was dedicated to three poets, including Naum Korzhavin.

It is difficult to say for sure what our future will turn out to be. Scientist Paul Ehrlich argued that “hundreds of millions of people will starve to death in the 1970s, despite all the emergency measures and programs now being developed”; many today argue their points based on incorrect assumptions or entire lifestyles that may change.

I worship To the most solemn and despotic monstrosities - Torture/ Slapped Blood - everything is Love. Belong to the name Maria: worn cassock and self-flagellation/ Under the blows of the bell, with your stomach to the sky, die of repentance, With my back to the ground, become a part forever

Boundaries are one of the stumbling blocks in life and modern psychological practice. Different levels of boundaries - communicative and physical, real and imaginary, in space or time - are the target of close attention, remaining an ambiguous category in interpretation. Lifestyle and culture change the understanding of boundaries.

Total dictation as a means to prevent entropy and procrastination Last Saturday, April 16, I came to the Russian State University for the Humanities to write “Total Dictation” (www.totaldict.ru), as they say, “live”: in a real classroom with a lectern and desks, among interested people of all ages. There was a slight excitement in the air, which our wonderful “dictator”, rock musician Sergei Galanin, very opportunely diluted with life stories and witty remarks.