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Many monuments and nice places in Saint Petersburg I visited on my own. I took one free tour, get directions to Pushkin cafe, tips for places to have lunch, interesting facts about Saint Isaac's Cathedral  which was turned into the museum of atheism during communism time, was listening about frozen Neva and heard story about midday shoot from  Naryshkin Bastion , which signalized begging and ending of work shift during the Peter's the Great period or  signalized risk of flood. "Maybe I should pay tour to Tsarskoe selo, and get more information about place where Pushkin was studying and where the    Catherine I of Russia decided to build a residence...", I thought. There are many stands on Nevski prospekt, Saint Petersburg main street, where you can book your tour to different palaces, boat trips and other touristic places. I arrived at last moment, paid 2400 rubles (~32 EUR), woman took me to a guide...and I realized that tour is in Russian! It was too la

One of the theaters, which drew my attention on 31st Ulica festival in Krakow is Grupa Zatrzymac Obrotowke from Poland . They had very attractive performance, with some acrobatic parts. "Performances with the disabled and engaging in worked for local community in the Krakow district of Kazimierz" in the program description inspired me to go to backstage, after the show and ask more about their work. Photo: FB page  Zatrzymać Obrotówkę Attractive performance.. . Photo: FB page  Zatrzymać Obrotówkę ...with romantic moments Sooo...meet Arletta Szewczyk, founder of foundation Fundacja Wszyscy Obecni, actress in theater group Zatrzymac Obrotowke. She also works as a teacher in cultural center in Krakow (SCKM Krakow). She was an international volunteer in Spain and was working with elderly people and people with disabilities. Arletta also works as an tourist entertainer. Beside theater, she loves dogs and Disney movies. Arletta Szewczyk What s

The reason why I decided to spend last part of my trip powered by Schwarzkopf foundation grant and visit Russia in period 17-25th August, was wish to be there during the  VI Moscow International University Theater Festival. Rainy day and sleepy me...not so great combination for walking tour, so I decided to spend my first day in Moscow in visit of Bulgakov's house. Trying to reach the destination, at the edge of getting in fight with navigation, with its instructions to cross the street and no zebra in sight, I was right in front of MOST Theater - the host of the festival. MOST Theater As I already was there, I entered to buy the ticket for the show. I told them that I arrived to make a research and write a report about role of the theater in populism time...aaaaaand they call me to come on shows as press presenter! First show I had chance to see was  "Stop here, passerby, stop" based on life and poetry of Marina Tsvetaeva.  Short description in Eng