Category Archives: Russians in Contemporary Fiction

I just fin­ished watch­ing The Last Sta­tion, the Tol­stoy movie from the sum­mer of 2010, and won­der­ing about screen Rus­si­ans (old style) as opposed to screen Rus­si­ans (new style, i.e. Orlov). In the inter­view from the DVD’s spe­cials, the dir­ect­or … Con­tin­ue read­ing →

Meet the Gentry: Aleksandr Orlov, here seen with his devoted side-kick, Sergej, enjoy­ing the splend­our of his bub­bly jac­uzzy bath. Orlov may seem like a meme all of his own. Brows­ing around his ever-expand­ing homepage, now includ­ing the vil­lage of Meerkovo … Con­tin­ue read­ing →