Martine Self
I've been involved in journalism and publishing since 1981 when I started my first job as editor of not one but two B2B magazines.
A move to Malawi after marriage meant I could not work as a journalist, so started writing books. Five ensued, mostly about travel, but with one about malaria.
Since then we've moved to Russia, which we thoroughly enjoy. One of my missions is to make Russia more widely known in the world in a positive sense. Russia deserves a much better press.
I've also had art
A move to Malawi after marriage meant I could not work as a journalist, so started writing books. Five ensued, mostly about travel, but with one about malaria.
Since then we've moved to Russia, which we thoroughly enjoy. One of my missions is to make Russia more widely known in the world in a positive sense. Russia deserves a much better press.
I've also had art
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Articles by Martine Self
April 15, 2006
Even though I?ve been passing Russia?s most recognisable icon on the way home along the embankment for some six years now, every time I pass St Basil?s Cathedral, I still gawp and wonder at its chaotic onion-dome confectionary in sheer amazement.
Just how did it come about? Why on earth were such ...
April 08, 2006
When it comes to finding out about Stalin?s bunker in Moscow, a lingering secrecy exists. When I knew I was going to visit the bunker as part of an organised excursion, along with an equally curious group of expatriates living in Moscow, I did a search on the internet but came up with only one ...
February 08, 2006
What can you say about a cathedral that took 40 years to build, was demolished on the whim of one man, who then planned to replace it by building the tallest building in the world, but instead it became the world’s largest open air swimming pool and then was rebuilt almost exactly as it first was bu...
January 28, 2006
Just a few years ago when I first moved here, back in 1998, I revelled in the refreshing lack of festive season celebrations. The process in England, which is where I’d come from, had managed to turn me off this annual event big time.
There, I noticed, as soon as the summer outdoor furniture and ...
January 26, 2006
If you think the latest in espionage chic might be spectacles which contain cyanide capsules in their frames to help you commit suicide quickly, or if you want to uncover the secret of why the Russians always managed to capture American spies with just a few drops of water, you will find a visit to ...
January 26, 2006
Recently, one of Russia’s cultural treasures was closed to the public for a lengthy period of much-needed renovation. Before it closed, I jumped at the chance to tour the Bolshoi (big) Theatre and unearth some of its history.
The Bolshoi is not the first theatre to stand imposingly on the impressi...