Orlov Antiques

08/04/2021

I am rarely open but occasionally some walks in who loves finding interesting creative eclectic items. Here is what she walked away with:

11/23/2020

This pictures in this article show there is incredible beauty in stark desolate landscapes where communities are struggling to survive in harsh conditions. The area along the Road of Bones was made famous by the Gulag.

The Kolyma Highway in the Russian Far East once delivered tens of thousands of prisoners to the work camps of Stalin’s gulag. The ruins of that cruel era are still visible today.

05/20/2020

I wish I had some Faberge eggs for sale in my shop but alas, the Russian Oligarchs seem to have them all!

You never know what’s going to turn up in those maritime shipping records.

05/17/2020

“Doctors say they are hampered not just by a lack of equipment and protective gear but also by a rigid, top-down governing system that discourages initiative and independent thinking. Medical workers who have spoken out have faced pressure from the authorities; three doctors who tangled with their superiors over working conditions fell from windows in recent weeks, though even the Alliance of Doctors, a medical-worker activist group highly critical of the government response, has described those as possible stress-related suicides, not homicides.”

Facing dire shortages of protective gear and amid fears that the worst is yet to come, more than 180 medical workers are reported to have fallen victim so far and thousands have been infected.

04/27/2020

Be careful what you look for in Russia. This researcher, Yuri Dimitriev, has been jailed and accused of pe******ia because of his discovery of mass graves of Stalins Victims in Siberia.

The discovery by Yuri Dmitriev, after years of searching, “has clearly made some people very uncomfortable,” his daughter says.

03/14/2019

“Turgenev was so out of step with some of the conventions of his own country that “he never drank vodka and always preferred wine,” said Ms. Levina, the estate director.

But still, she added: “He was an extraordinary Russian writer. That is all that really matters.”

The Russian government celebrates the writer Ivan Turgenev even though it scorns many of his negative views of his homeland and his embrace of Western, liberal values.

03/09/2019

Looks like censorship could be taken to a new level in Russia, making criticism of the government illegal.

Those found guilty of "blatant disrespect" or spreading so-called fake news will face fines or even jail.

03/07/2019

Charles McCarry said that his 9 years as an undercover agent were often mundane, but he witnessed incredible moments like the erecting of the Berlin Wall and turned those experiences into imaginative spy fiction. Well done.

What Mr. McCarry learned as a Cold War C.I.A. operative served him well as a writer. His fiction was compared to John le Carré’s.

03/07/2019

Just purchased an amazing collection of old newspapers. It is pretty incredible to see the actual headlines of history being made.

03/01/2019

February 27th is the anniversary of Boris Nemtsov’s murder near the Kremlin.

Boris Nemtsov was shot dead on the night of February 27, 2015, on a bridge near the Kremlin. He was 55 years old. A liberal politician who became one of Russian President Vladimir Putin's most prominent opponents, Nemtsov became a symbol of the struggle for democracy in Russia.

02/24/2019

Remember the Rosenbergs? They really were spies, although probably executed in the Cold War fever taking hold at that time. Sobell, one of the other defendants was latter released and professed his innocence until 2008, so people can keep secrets for a long time. He not only betrayed his country but supporters around the world who believed him and his betrayal could of led to Soviet aggression in Korea.

Convicted in the Cold War spy trial that delivered Julius and Ethel Rosenberg to their deaths and divided the nation, he later admitted that he had been a spy.