TRINITY CATHEDRAL, PSKOV, RUSSIA: FOR SUNDAY

TRINITY CATHEDRAL

PSKOV, RUSSIA

INTERIOR OF THE

"SOARING" TRINITY CATHEDRAL

PSKOV, RUSSIA, 1993

IT'S BERKELEY

IT'S BERKELEY

A PARKING SPACE

"RESERVED FOR

NOBEL LAUREATE

AT ALL TIMES"

ANDREI VOZNESENSKY DIES, June 1, 2010

ANDREI VOZNESENSKY

May 12, 1933-June 1, 2010

RUSSIAN POET

ANDREI VOZNESENSKY

PHOTOGRAPHED ON A

HOT, MUGGY DAY

IN MOSCOW, 1999

The instant New York Times obit

is here; the long one, here;

an old (1979) Time article occasioned

by Nostalgia for the Present, here;

W.H. Auden on Voznesensky in 1966

in the New York Review of Books, here

BERKELEY STREET SCENE: A Vignette -- and The Rest of the Story?

SEEN ON THE STREET

ON A SUNDAY IN MAY

BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA

A vignette --

and

the rest of the story?

YELTSIN WINS THE WHITE HOUSE -- TWENTY YEARS LATER

BORIS YELTSIN

WINS THE RUSSIAN

"WHITE HOUSE"

May 29, 1990

THE RUSSIAN "WHITE HOUSE," MOSCOW

PHOTOGRAPHED IN 1984

A HALF-DOZEN YEARS BEFORE

IT EVER CAME TO BE CALLED THAT

(to be continued)

THE GOLDEN GATE BRIDGE OPENS, May 27, 1937

THE GOLDEN GATE BRIDGE

OPENS

May 27, 1937

THE GOLDEN GATE BRIDGE

MAY 2010

HERE'S LOOKING AT YOU, KID

HERE'S LOOKING AT YOU,

KID

MACHU PICCHU LLAMA

YOUNG PIONEERS II

YOUNG PIONEERS II

MEMBERS OF A

YOUNG PIONEER HONOR GUARD

MARCH AT A CIVIL WAR MEMORIAL

NOVOSIBIRSK, RUSSIA, 1984

BACK IN THE USSR

YOUNG PIONEERS I

YOUNG PIONEERS I

YOUNG PIONEER

HONOR GUARD MEMBER

NOVOSIBIRSK, RUSSIA, 1984

BACK IN THE USSR

SHE TOOK HER DUTIES VERY SERIOUSLY.

On May 19, 1922, the Young Pioneer Organization of

the Soviet Union was founded; it was formally known

as the Lenin All-Union Pioneer Organization.

The Young Pioneer Organization continues

today in Russia. (See a Reuters photograph

here -- the second in the slide show.)

GONE FISHIN': A MAN, A POLE, A KREMLIN

GONE FISHIN'

A MAN, A POLE, A KREMLIN

MOSCOW 1984

BACK IN THE USSR

ANOTHER NOVOSIBIRSK MONUMENT: MEMORIAL TO THE (RUSSIAN) CIVIL WAR

ANOTHER SOVIET WAR MONUMENT

MEMORIAL TO

THE RUSSIAN CIVIL WAR

NOVOSIBIRSK, RUSSIA

Photographed back in the USSR, in 1984

HERE BE GIANTS

ANOTHER ETERNAL FLAME -- THIS ONE IN STONE (NOVOSIBIRSK, RUSSIA)

ANOTHER ETERNAL FLAME

NOVOSIBIRSK, RUSSIA

Another eternal flame (see Stalingrad Memorial),

this time in stone; another upthrust hand

holding the flame

Photographed back in the USSR, in 1984

HERE BE GIANTS

TONY BLAIR, FORMER PRIME MINISTER, b. May 6, 1953, CELEBRATES A BIRTHDAY AS THE U.K. GOES TO THE POLLS

TONY BLAIR

FORMER PRIME MINISTER

b. May 6, 1953

CELEBRATES A BIRTHDAY

AS THE U.K. GOES TO THE POLLS,

AND THE FATE OF

THE LABOUR GOVERNMENT

LOOKS, AT BEST, UNCERTAIN

THE G-8 LEADERS POSE FOR

THEIR "FAMILY PHOTOGRAPH"

IN COLOGNE, GERMANY, IN 1999

TONY BLAIR IS

THIRD FROM CAMERA RIGHT

CARNEGIE HALL ("MUSIC HALL") OPENED IN NEW YORK CITY, May 5, 1891

CARNEGIE HALL

(ORIGINALLY NAMED "MUSIC HALL")

OPENED IN NEW YORK CITY

May 5, 1891

THE MUSICIANS FILE INTO CARNEGIE HALL

FOR A PERFORMANCE

NOVEMBER 28, 2006

("Please turn off your cellphones and

other electronic devices. Thank You.")

KURT MASUR CONDUCTING

TWENTY YEARS SINCE LATVIA DECLARED INDEPENDENCE FROM THE SOVIET UNION

LATVIA

DECLARES INDEPENDENCE

FROM THE SOVIET UNION

May 4, 1990

MONUMENT

TO LIBERTY

RIGA (LATVIA), USSR 1984

IN HONOR OF VALERY GERGIEV: THE KIROV/MARIINSKY THEATER

IN HONOR OF VALERY GERGIEV

THE KIROV/MARIINSKY THEATER

Leningrad (St. Petersburg)

Photographed in 1984

Back in the USSR

Gergiev, the General Director of the Mariinsky,

was born May 2, 1953

A GLIMPSE OF SHANGHAI'S PAST AS SHANGHAI WORLD EXPO 2010 OPENS

A GLIMPSE OF

SHANGHAI'S PAST AS

SHANGHAI WORLD EXPO 2010

OPENS

May 1, 2010

SHANGHAI RIVER SUNSET

June 1981

Some Shanghai Preservation Efforts here

BORIS YELTSIN DIES, April 23, 2007

BORIS YELTSIN

FIRST PRESIDENT OF RUSSIA

DIES APRIL 23, 2007

(BORN FEBRUARY 1, 1931)

BORIS YELTSIN PHOTOGRAPHED

IN AN OIL RIG CABIN

OFF THE COAST OF SAKHALIN, RUSSIA, USSR (1990)

THE FORTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF THE FIRST EARTH DAY (April 20, 1970)

IN HONOR OF EARTH DAY

FIRST CELEBRATED

APRIL 22, 1970

A PIECE OF THE EARTH

THAT DISAPPEARED

A SAND DUNE

NEAR TRURO, MASSACHUSETTS

(CAPE COD)

TWILIGHT ON THE CANAL ... OFF NEVSKY PROSPEKT

TWILIGHT ON THE CANAL

OFF NEVSKY PROSPEKT

LENINGRAD, USSR 1984

(NOW ST. PETERSBURG, RUSSIA)