History
January 8, 2020
From The Russian Chronicle 10th Century A.D. Only a lust for conquest exceeded Prince Vladimir’s lust for women, which, they say, rivaled Solomon’s. Vladimir had four […]
January 25, 2019
This photo was taken by my father, Warren Gardner, at some point during the 1950s. It was his way of expressing his idea of a country […]
July 28, 2018
The plight of Russia in the early twentieth century did not escape notice by Mark Twain. Mark Twain wrote in response to dispatches regarding the 1903 […]
July 28, 2018
This is a business card for Bezalel, who repaired sewing machines. It is written in Yiddish. This was found among the letters of Polya’s collection. Most […]
How This Collection Came To Me