When he became acting president of Russia on the last day of the 20th Century, the former spy was an enigma to many. Who is the "man of deeds, not words"?
Last December came the completion of four full decades of trying to Change The Culture, or to at least Stop The Bleeding, and this column takes not even a quantum ...
Schreck’s bloodsucker, then, was a kind of Rat King, embodying a primal fear of “foreign contagion”, according ... Far more prominent is a whopping monument to Murnau right around the corner. A bust ...