And it was Paskha, the Russian Orthodox Easter, and we were outside the church in Podolsk, the one on the hill from where you could see the little house where Lenin stayed for a bit — but it was midnight and we couldn’t see anything and we were secretly drunk anyway and we were all brothers and sisters and nothing mattered any more — and the priests went round the church, anti-clockwise — “To go against time,” whispered Tanya — and they cried: “Hristos voskres! Christ is risen!” And we all shouted: “Voistiny voskres! Risen indeed!” And we shouted till we got hoarse, and we got goose pimples, and then we went back home and forgot about God and got drunk just as we were getting sober, and even the neighbour was drunk, and we slammed into each other at the doorway, and then I was helping him up the stairs, and someone had a hand clenched into the back of his leather jacket, and I was steering him into what I presumed was his apartment and his face slammed into the doorpost, skin against metal painted that Soviet interior green and that’d be hell when he woke up.
Moskva is up here now.
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Love your Grizzly shadow… excellent pic
I really did not understand the shadows on the wall… Just trying to know which side the light is .. If it is behind you and if you are on the same level as the people .. then the priests on the first row should also get the light.. i guess you are on a wall or a stand.. and light is exactly behind you and your full shadow is on the wall.. is it correct ??… in any case.. photo has the signature “Pinaki”