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Just an Italian girl in her 20s trying to learn Russian / currently living in Spain for no particular reason

[levskialtarpiece]

Maja Bajevic, ‘Women at Work - Under Construction’ 1999

[wanderlandjournal]

misty pastel summer mornings

[fuckwallpapers]

[baleqeesofsheba]

Haraz mountains, Yemen.

[gnossienne]

Vladimir Nabokov to Véra Nabokov (12 Jan, 1924)

[philosophybits]

“In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so.”

— Immanuel Kant, Lectures on Ethics

[kurhanchyk]

i think they should allow everyone in the world to vote in american elections

[puissantpunani-222]

One thing about me, I'm going to take it as a sign

[fruitydiaz]

yeah “i can teach you” is kind and gentle and warm and comforting. it’s also hot. right

[petaltexturedskies]

Summer has been consuming my energy in the most ruthless way.

Virginia Woolf, from a diary entry written c. June 1927

[rosechata]

afghanistan

oriane_zerah_photo

[russiawave]

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[currentlycryingaboutlancelot]

the idiot by dostoyevsky: a summary

[vronsk-aya]

Today I learnt my new favorite Russian word «достопримечательность» which to my understanding means landmark? Or like something that you have to see when you visit a place and I just love how it rolls off your tongue. Then it let me to a rabbit hole of the etymology of the word, which apparently comes from «достойный» (worthy) and so it kinda explains itself as “something worth seeing” and it’s the best thing I have learnt today.

Oh, I also learnt the word «поставщик» but that’s not as cool.

[julieterbang]

joooo.ann__

[erwen-leino]

Resources for languages of Russia

Here is a cloud folder full of resources for various languages of Russia*, about 40 in total. Most of these books are in Russian, but still might be useful to you.

If you have questions or any resources that you would like to add to the folder, please DM me! 

*I included languages spoken in Russia that are not state languages in any other country — ie, no Korean or English. Yiddish is included due to its recognition in Jewish Autonomous Oblast (and because I have resources for it).

Full list under the cut:

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