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We Russians certainly enjoy a summer holiday! In the past, we used to spend the summer months at our dachas in countryside outside Moskva, or on the Black Sea coast - the smart destination for Russia's ruling class.

While there is...

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I am sorry to be late again. Sometimes I find it hard to keep up with this blog, especially when an invitation from Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana to the 3 day launch of their first Couture Collection in Sicily, arrives - like...

Privet Dorogaya! (1)

From Paris I fly straight to New York to catch up with family and friends.

Most of my close family live in New York, including my two brothers and their children and two of my sons - one at college and one now working.

If...

To make up for disastrous Easter holiday, Arkady takes me to Marrakech for long weekend. We stay as usual at the Mamounia in beautiful suite overlooking the pool and garden.

Actually, I concerned that Arkady will spend his time looking at krasotkie (1) sunbathing by the pool, but...

Arkady and I usually go somewhere hot at Easter, so invited friends Mikhail Alexeievich and Maria to join us in the Carribean. However, being Jewish, they can't come because it's Passover, so they're going to visit some Russian friends in Israel.

Instead we invited Nika and Vasiliy Vasiliyevech....

Bliya! (1) - I put on eight pounds while I was in Paris. This is disaster! Arkady and I always take few days' holidays in the sun in April and I cannot let him see me in a bikini like this. So once again I go to fat collective Mayr...

After the trauma of missing Couture Week, I stayed on for a few days in Paris to browse the cruise collections with my friends Svetlana and Masha.

We stayed, as we always do, at the Plaza Athenee on Avenue Montaigne, which is conveniently situated right in the...

To use your British understatement, it was not a vintage January. I went to the launch of the Faberge Egg Hunt at 29 Portland Place.

The event was held on two floors, which was fine until Mark Shand - the brat of your Grand Duchess Camilla - began to...

So Christmas and New Year have come and gone again. We get to celebrate both twice, unlike you inoslavnym1-. Russian jews get to do it three times! Either way - it all adds up to three weeks of fun.

This year, Arkady and I flew to Miami on 21...