This is from Natalia who sends the following quote by famous stage director Nikita Mikhalkov:
The essence of the Russian “people determines, on the one hand, the hope for a miracle, and on the other hand, the belief that all is not the power to decide but compassion, kindness, contemplation, compassion.”
I must say that I enjoy very much this postcard which purports to be–according to the back–The Cafhedral[sic] of the Elevation of the Cross in the Yuriev Monastery 1823. But it actually seems to be a picture of a boulder in a field, with the cathedral off in the far distance.