the British Viv Groskop was in his twenties, when he was a student exchange in st. Petersburg. He fell in love with the bad Ukrainian boy who played guitar in a rock band.
the Crush was so great that Groskop go with the band on tour to Ukraine. He reached the black sea, Odessa and many interesting places. The only problem was, that the object of love shown any passion for the characters Groskopia point.
I Saw looking back it was tragicomic. I did everything I could to get her to love me, but he just kind of tolerate me.
One night Groskop was on the black sea at the beach of Russian and Ukrainian with their friends. Also, the crush was there. Groskop decided: now or never.
he was drunk he had the brilliant idea to turn the tide of his great love of the head. When others make a departure from the beach, Groskop suggested love boldly nocturnal moonlight swimming. He took off his clothes and ran into the sea. When he glanced back to check the boy, he saw this moving away from the back beach above the water garden where.
It was so embarrassing. Afterwards I heard him say that the british have gone mad, laugh Groskop.
Thomas hagstrom, from / YLE
by Chance Groskop read just then Ivan Turgenev (1818-1883) classic book a Month in the country. It tells a one-sided love. Book all person you fall in love with the wrong people. No one can love.
Book comforted me a lot. Of course I immediately agreed to see the connection the characters in the book and their own miserable fate with my. While I admit it was comforting to think that already over a hundred years ago someone felt the same and survived.
Turgenev know what he wrote, for he himself ran the entire life of a French opera singer after all over Europe.
Anna Karenina bump as a teenager
Hard, dark, troublesome name. This is considered to be a Russian classic literature. Fortunately, Viv Groskop did not know this, when you find a 13-year-old used bookstore Anna karenina’s. He had not heard of Tolstoy, let alone the other great Russian writers.
Anna Karenina tragic story was hit and sank to the teenage soul. It started the interest in Russian literature, which started to blow so hard that Groskop began to study at the university of russia.
studies at the end of the relationship with Russia continue to close, as Groskop worked for years as editor of the Russian Vogue. His place was London, but he traveled frequently to Moscow and wrote about the country of fashion, culture and phenomena.
– a Young, tender age read the book you can change your whole life. This happened to me.
Thomas hagstrom, from / YLE
Young read Anna Karenina and many other classics were Groskopille as exploratory journeys to adulthood. What is love, repentance, the meaning of life? By reading he began to feel the intimacy of Russian thinking with the world, which is repeated often, the word fate.
classic books to grapple to a number of ethical issues with and the main character is the hardships of life over taking. These findings originated in the Viv Groskopin works, don’t throw yourself under a train. In that shared life-learning-self help guides style, but are based on more than a hundred years old books.
– Russian classics are great life guides. They look, what not to do. As though to fall in love deeply, and go into the wrong living situation to the train station.
Groskop refers to the example of Anna karenina’s tragic end. Classics can also be found in the instructions. For example, Tolstoy more than a thousand-page järkele in, in peace and War, the emphasis on everyday ordinary life, the routine, although around the boil. That way survives the war, too.
the Three sisters is just plain FOMO:a
One of the most beloved Russian classics is Anton Chekhov Three sisters. It is also Groskopin favorite, because it reflects the time we all the best.
in modern – day as FOMO (fear of missing out) has a strong presence, especially of young people in everyday life. This same feeling is about Three sisaressa, when they yearn for Moscow.
FOMO means a vague sense, that’s missing out, an outsider. Irina, Maša and Olga do not want anything more than that would be in Moscow. They do not notice that they are surrounded by all things beautiful and things are pretty good. Have some champagne, celebrate and potential love interest too. All this is of secondary importance to Moscow kaipailun alongside.
Body makeup was Groskopin makeup the
the Russian soul is a concept. What it means is a little vague. It cannot, however, avoid, if it is dealing with the russians. Groskopin, it deals with the best Nobel prize-winning author of Boris Pasternak (1890-1960) in the novel Dr. Zhivago.
it’s a great honor, if a Russian says to foreigners that you have Russian soul. I initially never understood what it meant. Was it a good thing or a bad thing. When I read Dr. Zhivago I began to understand the concept better.
Thomas hagstrom, from / YLE
the Award-winning novel, people retain hope and believe for the better, even if society around them is chaotic and cruel. The book is also very political and Pasternak got his ass whipped. Miraculously he escaped from a pow camp, but the nobel prize with regard to in the book was declared rubbish.
Groskop got the first touch of the Russian soul when he was 18 years old, st. Petersburg English language teacher. His circle of friends when this girl committed suicide. Also Groskop was invited to the funeral, who were “zhivago kind of” landscape of st. Petersburg outside. The whole funeral ceremony was quite different, where Groskop was accustomed to.
I don’t quite know how to react. It was strange and terrible, but at the same time I felt privileged when I got in. I was very young then, but I learned that a lot of Russian attitude to life.
the Confusion of emotion added, as Groskopilta were taken at the outset to ask questions about makeup. He had wondered why he was urged to take the makeup according to. On-site revealed that they were intended makeup body face beautiful.
Then the Russian young people have had little makeup available. That’s why I have to bring makeup.
Groskop, of course, give Our powder and lipstick, you loan, but not after longer use them.
Groskop learn a lot of Russian attitude to life, when he was called to the 18-year-old’s funeral in Russia.Thomas hagstrom, from / YLE
Finland Groskopin brought the Helsinki book fair. At first glance, Helsinki resembles in his opinion, little Peter. Groskop’s still occasionally in Russia. His book was published there in the beginning of the year and it got a good reception.
I Heard that young people in particular are my books with the help of rediscovered classic of his. Nothing is better news!
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