I really enjoyed your post because it was different than a lot of the other posts this week. I was also really impressed with the pictures you included in your post! I think when you consider how dire the situation must have felt when people were starv…
Author: Grace Callanan
Comment on Tea with a Splash of Vodka by Grace Callanan
I thought this post was really intriguing because it discusses the different cultures in Russia at the time. It’s odd because in my mind if these people had been living in the region for so long, I wouldn’t qualify them as Greek, rather Russians. However, during this time period (and maybe still today?) their culture was still separate enough to be seen as Greek and not Russian. I also liked that it was a subject that I really had no previous knowledge on, tea production.
Comment on The Yakutian Laika Dog by Grace Callanan
I thought this post was really interesting to read because it’s not a normal train of research I’d follow! I agree with you that the picture makes you remember the humanity of this culture/people. I feel that with history it is often easy to distance ourselves from those living during the period, however dogs were part of life for them, and obviously a major part of life for people now as well.
