Andrew Townend

NZ diplomat 🇳🇿

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My Russian is not quite up to the original, but there’s an excellent new translation by Svetlana Payne. I’m holed up at home with a cold, and it’s the perfect companion.

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One year ago today my family and I left Moscow. My colleagues gave me a copy of Mikhail Osorgin’s 1928 novel Sivtsev Vrazhek, named after the street where we lived, as a leaving present.

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And the Gulf of California

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Panama City - Los Angeles, 7/3/26

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Barrancas del Cobre (Copper Canyon), Chihuahua

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Miraflores Locks, Panama, 1/3/26

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Pipiriki-Raetihi Rd, 8/2/26

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Kelburn, 3/9/25

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Red Square, 1/9/25. До свидания, Москва!

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Arbat, 27/8/25

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Bolshoi Theatre, 12/7/25

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Sergiev Posad, 12/7/25

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Lake Pleshcheyevo, 10/5/25

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St Nicholas Monastery, Pereslavl-Zalessky, 10/5/25

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Zavidovo, 20/4/25