As summer yields to autumn, London undergoes its annual transformation. The light changes, acquiring a particular slant that renders familiar streets suddenly strange. Mornings arrive wrapped in fog, buildings emerging like ghosts as the day progresses. It’s in this liminal season that I’m pleased to share news of my second publication: “Туманные блики” (“Foggy Glimmers”) […]
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My hands are trembling slightly as I type this – I finally have news to share! My story “Life on the Island” will soon be available to readers. After months of writing and rewriting, of doubt and conviction alternating like tides, this work is finally ready to make its way into the world. The feeling
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The Imperial College campus buzzes with academic energy, but my mind frequently wanders beyond its modern glass structures to the city that surrounds it. London in winter holds a particular kind of magic—a dance between shadow and illumination, history and innovation, belonging and alienation. As I navigate my first months of the Strategic Marketing program,
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London is shrouded in November fog, dissolving the outlines of buildings and transforming the city into a space between reality and dream. On such days, you feel especially acutely how thin the line is between the material and the imagined. I write these lines sitting in a half-empty café near South Kensington—a district that will
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Yesterday I completed my final exam of this academic year. The university campus has emptied—students have scattered in all directions, while I remain alone with the silence of the library and my thoughts. In such moments, you feel especially acutely what freedom means and what price we pay to attain it. Outside, London is wrapped
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Hello, dear readers, still unknown to me. On the day of the spring equinox, when the balance between light and darkness is perfectly aligned, I’ve decided to start this blog. Symbolic, isn’t it? Balancing between opposites has always felt like a natural state to me—between Russian and English languages, between marketing and literature, between London
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The last day of this extraordinary year finds London once again in lockdown. From my window, I watch the Thames carry the fading light of 2020 toward the horizon. There’s something appropriate about ending this year in quietude, in this liminal space between what was and what might be. If someone had described this year
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This day, we gathered in the verdant embrace of Hyde Park, basking under an open sky to revel in the power of literature. Friends and kindred spirits joined me for an afternoon of shared reading and heartfelt discussion, diving into the theme of “Literature and Social Change.” With favorite poems, novels, and essays in hand,
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The screen flickers as five faces in small rectangles debate the merits of different customer acquisition strategies. Our group project for UCL’s Foundations of Management module is approaching its deadline—a comprehensive marketing proposal for Ambassador Bloomsbury Hotel, developed entirely in the strange virtual realm we now inhabit. I’ve been assigned the marketing section, which should
Foundations of Management: Merging Creativity and Business? Read More »
The world has changed in ways we couldn’t have imagined just weeks ago. London, typically bustling with life, has fallen eerily silent. The once-crowded corridors of UCL now echo with absence. I remain in my university accommodation, watching spring unfold through my window rather than on walks through Regent’s Park. My lectures have migrated online—disembodied
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