What did you say?
George Thomson

“The historian who shuts his eyes to the present cannot see deeply into the past. All students of Classical philology must therefore be active in the struggle for peace and Socialism.”

- George Thomson
and my story begins in Russia… #2

and my story begins in Russia… #2

Posted on Oct 21, 2016 in Uncategorized

On the ‘Red Arrow’ — a famous Soviet-period overnight train between St Petersburg and Moscow — I shared a cabin with a kindly man named Igor. His English vocabulary extended to the words ‘dog’ and ‘bed’, which got us only so far. The crowning moment of our communication came when he showed me a photo on his […]