"Lena is always the winner, whatever happens to her, no matter which stories this enterprising, cheerful, and observant forever young lady has got into,"

- Prof. A Mihailov, Department of Literary Arts.
Height of Land

Farewell to Maine

It was supposed to happen immediately after my family’s 2020 Christmas visit from England. Instead, the Art Project happened, in joint with my friend, photographer and installation designer Amy. Then Covid happened, and everyone

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Museum Test Drive

The journalist combined the history of Russia with the atlas of its roads

For a year and a half, the journalist of the Moskovsky Komsomolets newspaper, Lena Faber, (formerly Novikova), traveled to small towns, villages, manors, and museums, some destroyed and some rebuilt, even her original assignment was to write about her test drives in the latest model of cars.

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Lena Faber. Four Years on Foot

Four Years On Foot

By that time the children had already grown up, so I just bought a ticket and flew … to the Kalahari Desert, 2008. Remember the movie? Gods Must be Crazy-2? A must watch. I always wondered if one day I could run like the bushmen in the movie.

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Caro Mio Ben

Learning to Sing

My grandmother, the princess Mescherskaya, after the revolution of 1917 became an opera singer. I never opened my mouth for a single note until

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