Observations · Science · Humour
Karl Marx and the subject of artificial intelligence
The new era differs from the old one chiefly in that the whip begins to imagine it is a genius. Karl Marx on artificial intelligence
Alexandr Radayev
NB! · Archive · Museums · Heritage · Saint Petersburg
A restorer at work in the Tsarskoye Selo Museum-Reserve in 1984
A restorer at work in the Tsarskoye Selo Museum-Reserve in 1984. Photo by Vsevolod Tarasevich
Archive · Mores · Society · Humour
On 26 January 1522 the city council of Amsterdam decreed:
"…that no one shall throw snowflakes, neither woman nor man, on pain of a fine of one pound."
Archive · Books · People
Leo Tolstoy at his desk in the study at Yasnaya Polyana in 1908
Photograph by Karl Bulla
Faith · Art · Mores · Humour
The evening king game in a Flemish painting of the Epiphany celebration
No more for this one! In fact, they will pour him another. This Flemish painting, connected with the celebration of Epiphany on 6 January, captures a game that was popular in the seventeenth century. The man in the paper crown is the king of the evening, chosen by lot. For
Art · Moscow · Museums
Polyptych “Summer”, from the cycle “The Seasons of Russian Painting”, 2007
Alexander Vinogradov and Vladimir Dubossarsky, gift of the artists to the Tretyakov Gallery
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Preparing Salad Olivier to the recipe of Elena Molokhovets:
hazel grouse, calf's tongue, pressed black caviar (payusnaya), fresh lettuce, boiled crayfish, lobster, pickles (small marinated vegetables), Kabul soy (an old fermented seasoning made from soya beans), cucumbers, capers, hard-boiled eggs, sauce Provençale, salt. In principle, pressed caviar can be replaced by bottarga, the crayfish and lobster
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Dostoevsky took this New Testament with him to penal servitude in Siberia
Books · Society · People · Saint Petersburg
Dostoevsky and the Petrashevsky Circle, from the 1849 Sentence to the 1857 Pardon
Dostoevsky Was Sentenced to Death by Firing Squad. The sentence on Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky was pronounced in November 1849. His offence was participation in the circle of Mikhail Petrashevsky. In the spring of 1849 the circle was broken up. Dostoevsky was arrested together with other participants in the gatherings. For
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Three exhibitions close on 18 January, while “Winter’s Tale” opens at the Tretyakov Gallery on 10 January
In our regular "Where to Go" feature, a new selection of Moscow exhibitions worth visiting this week. 📌 Closing soon: the exhibition "The Road to the Avant-Garde: Dialogues of Artists in the Journal 'A-Ya'" at the Zotov Centre, until 18 January 📌 Closing soon:
NB! · Nature · Humour
The Cat Has Read the News and Decided, for the Present, to Make No Sudden Movements
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Russia is a vast, abundant and wealthy state; but the man in it is a fool, and starves to death in the midst of plenty
Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin