How to build a church (and keep it standing)

The murdered prince and the pardoned bell

Uglich as a site of historical myth-making: from the death of Tsarevich Dmitry to centuries of political narratives reshaping Russia’s past for legitimacy. This episode is composed from multiple layered sources, generated with the help of an LLM, set to an original jingle, and based on texts first published on the Tararumbia blog.

Poetry as a survival guide

Russian poetry across centuries reflects power, suffering, and resilience. This episode connects Voloshin and Sumarokov to explore how Moscow becomes a symbol of history, tyranny, and endurance — and why these voices still matter today.

Rust and routine: on the problem of contemporary art

A sink, an open tap, rust-coloured water. In Daily Table, Anton Morokov turns a familiar ritual – standing by the sink, trying to come to your senses – into something quietly obsessive and hard to ignore. Constructed, appropriately, through layers of mediation, this episode was created using an LLM, set to an original jingle, and draws on texts first published on the Tararumbia blog.

How to build a church (and keep it standing)

From Chernivtsi (Bukovina, Ukraine) to Curtea de Argeș (Romania), this episode moves between clean architectural logic and a stubborn legend of sacrifice said to keep the walls from falling apart. The cross-in-square plan, the illusion of ‘twisted’ domes, trace how Byzantine precision blends with Neoromanian flair—while the story quietly asks what really holds these structures together: engineering, tradition, or something less measurable. As with the buildings themselves, this episode is assembled from layered sources—created using an LLM, set to an original jingle, and rooted in texts first published on the Tararumbia blog.

Sufficient provenance

A private Moscow gallery in Russia, Renaissance treasures, and labels that raise more questions than they answer. How much provenance is ‘enough' when art meets commerce? This episode was created using an LLM. Original jingle. Based on a texts first published at Tararumbia blog.