Faith · Art · Observations · Humour
I don't know about you, but at first I fancied that this portly eighteenth-century monk was holding a slice of pizza. In fact, the Portuguese brother is holding a reliquary of the Mother of God. The abode of this good soul is Newstead Abbey in England, which
Books · Observations · Society
We, the late heirs of Western civilisation, have lost our naive faith. Ideological systems will no longer lead us astray Oswald Spengler once used these words to parry Marx. But, looking at Europe today in its total ideological bondage, one may say with certainty that Spengler was mistaken
Faith · Art · Books · Saint Petersburg
Your image, tormenting and unsteady, I could not touch in the fog. "Lord!" I said by mistake, Not thinking at all of saying it. God's name, like a great bird, Flew out of my breast. Ahead of me thick fog swirls, And behind me an empty
Cinema · Observations · Society Pages
In the new "Buratino", Nemolyaeva plays Tortilla. And while there are questions to be put to the film itself, Nemolyaeva's performance gives us a wise tortoise from some statistical bureau, with whom one longs to take tea with raspberry jam on a saucer. I am glad
Coming Up · Education · Society
How should a cultural manager develop these days? For a long time the sphere of culture was short of good managers. This hit the regions especially hard, where, without strong personnel, even the brightest creative potential remained within the walls of institutions, without a budget or competent management. At present,
Art · People
Artist Andrei Klimenko
Books · Observations · Mores
Some Fruits of Solitude in Reflections and Maxims / Fruits of Solitude. William Penn, 1693
Faith · Art · Museums
Madonna Adoring the Child. Italian Renaissance painter Correggio, 1526, collection of the Uffizi Gallery
Faith · Books · London
The ghost of Jacob Marley appeared before Ebenezer Scrooge on Christmas Eve. Marley, the miser's former partner, found himself after death bound in chains made up of ledgers and cash-boxes: in life, after all, he had been far too greedy. Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol
NB! · Science · Society · Ethnography
Putin has instructed the Russian Ministry of Science and Higher Education, jointly with the Russian Academy of Sciences, to draw up and approve a comprehensive programme of research devoted to the all-round ethnographic study of the Russian people. The instruction is to be carried out by 1 March 2026.
Observations · Society · Humour
Hurrah! Speaking the truth about Lenin, hangman of the Russian people, and his gang of bloodthirsty murderers is now permitted! Anti-Soviet agitation and propaganda have been recognised as acts that present no public danger, and those convicted of them are subject to rehabilitation regardless of the factual soundness of
Archive · Faith · Museums · Ethnography
The Novgorod Museum-Reserve has received a manuscript on birch bark, found in an Old Believer settlement on the Yenisei. The twentieth-century manuscript contains excerpts from the “Ladder of Divine Ascent” of John Climacus. In Siberian villages, letters and books continued to be produced on birch bark right up