Think Odessa, and you probably think of Sergei Eisenstein’s classic 1925 film Battleship Potemkin. Very proper too. The Black Sea port was a hodgepodge from its very foundation at the end of the eighteenth century, and the film title by which it is best evoked nowadays is a little jumble of ironies too.

For one thing the warship itself, the focus of a historic naval mutiny at Odessa in 1905, was really called Kniaz Potemkin Tavritchesky. It was soon renamed Pantelimon, and ended up in 1922 as Boretz Za Svobodu. Then the iconic Potemkin Steps, scene of the film’s most celebrated

Aug 2011

Beautiful Patterns

Make Him a Smooth Eunuch or an Enamoured Swain

Impossible Not to Be a Bit Pleased with Himself

Rather Like Margaret

Wiped off the Map

Let It Blow

Forget the Fluff

Painting in Verse

Stanzas at the Summit

The Sun Will Set

My Little Town

Made in Mannahatta

It’s the Taking Part that Counts

Of Wind & Water

Though the Open Door

Mammismo & Machismo

Kidnapped

Song of the Earth

Seeking His Quarry

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