Only “impressions” is what this text, which has no scientific pretensions, intends to give to any possible reader of the rich experience and the thoughts originated from the author’s observations of the life in a Russian city, and of the country as well. Russia is a fascinating place, a living laboratory, where all the transformations of a complex past led to the construction of a historical present. This text should not be considered as a roll of definite concepts rather than a suggestion to provide a debate about them.
anthropologic; memory; narratives