And yet, at the main building of the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, a new season of the festival "Fridays at the Pushkin" has begun, due to run until 25 December

And yet, at the main building of the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, a new season of the festival "Fridays at the Pushkin" has begun, due to run until 25 December. This year the friends of the museum have been offered a poetic collaboration with the actors of the Praktika Theatre, and the programme includes guided tours, musical evenings, discussions and talks under the title "Museums You Did Not Know About". One would very much like all of this to be realised, if only online 😣

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At the close of the Strugatskys' "Roadside Picnic" the Golden Sphere is asked for this: "Happiness for everybody, free, and let nobody go away unsatisfied!" I do not promise to leave no one aggrieved, but the digest really does come free

At the close of the Strugatskys' "Roadside Picnic" the Golden Sphere is asked for this: "Happiness for everybody, free, and let nobody go away unsatisfied!" I do not promise to leave no one aggrieved, but the digest really does come free. So, here is the

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Frederic Leighton. “Daedalus and Icarus”, 1869 Daedalus warns his son not to climb too high: the heat of the sun may melt the wax, but Icarus is already gazing into the distance, and the lamentations of a foolish old man interest him not in the least

And yet, at the main building of the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, a new season of the festival "Fridays at the Pushkin" has begun, due to run until 25 December

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At the close of the Strugatskys' "Roadside Picnic" the Golden Sphere is asked for this: "Happiness for everybody, free, and let nobody go away unsatisfied!" I do not promise to leave no one aggrieved, but the digest really does come free

Frederic Leighton

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