
"What is it you're dancing, Katya? – It's foxtrot, mommy. – Where did you study, Katya? – In the Carlton, mommy." Cartoon in the Russian Echo newspaper, Shanghai, October 1922.
"...At the edge of the city, almost outside of it, there was a suburb intersected by a long street called Şişli, and this is where a…
It was exciting to find this view of Alexander Vertinsky's Gardenia cabaret (кабаре "Гардения"), which operated between April and…
British, Russian and Japanese Legations in Peking's Legation Quarter. Image: Getty. Here is what the foreign society wore at a costume…
Competing against the world Does Shanghai realize the difficulty, the origination, and the time of trick pictorial work such as this? Here is a…
My chapter on the Russian food culture in Shanghai in the 2019 book Food Heritage and Nationalism in Europe – read or download here. In…
The article in Russian: https://magazeta.com/arc-federal/ I wrote about the building and its famous establishments in this entry.