What Happens In Russia Stays In Russia
One of the previously unpublished projects. For some reason, the project never materialized but sketches and collages I worked on were left untouched in archives, Kinda Russia Stereotypical compiled 🙂
Tagged: Yesterday’s Hero
99 Years with Putin: The Sketchbook
The Devil’s In the Details… 99 years with Vladimir Putin and who knows how many more to come. Here goes a quick sketchbook reviewing Russian History from 1917 to today with President Putin exclusively for...
Balderis 101
Just a continuation of the Helmut Balderis saga at Chidlovski.Com. We do take occasional breaks for work, family and many other activities 🙂 But we always appreciated the memories of one of the greatest...
Math And Honor
I am looking at the badge of honor for the Soviet Sports Hall of Fame. Each badge has a unique number and the name of the owner engraved in the back. This one says:...
M.S. Gorbachev Turns 85
Mikhail Gorbachev is 85! He was nicknamed Gorby and he was a mastermind behind global changes in the world in the late 1980s. He stayed behind the downfall the Iron Curtain and the Berlin...
Fallen Heroes
Is it true about Lech Walesa? I have to say Lech Walesa on my personal list of heroes. The 1980s produced fantastic political figures. Vaclav Havel, Nelson Mandela, Frederik Willem de Klerk, Mikhail Gorbachev…...
Happy Birthday, Mr. Gretzky!
Wayne Gretzky turned 55 today! The Great One is 55!!!! The “Now Everyone Can Be Gretzky” campaign from 2005 pictured on this ad does capture the spirit in 2016. Now Everyone Can Be Gretzky!!!...
Leonid Zhabotinsky (1938-2016)
Legendary Soviet Olympic weightlifter, the strongest man in the world in the 1960s, Leonid Zhabotinsky died in Zaporozhye, Ukraine on January 14, 2016. He was 77. Zhabotinsky set 19 world records and won two...
Childhood Idol
Just some memories… David Rigert was an idol of my childhood. There was nothing special about me in this. I was an aspiring lifter and Rigert was a weighlifters’ weightlifter. In our lockers of...
Showbiz Retiree
OK. We are now in 2016. New year means new projects and activities and some reflections on the past. Here goes a mini clip from 30 years ago. Moscow 1986. Soviet broadcast TV features...
