Architecture · Faith · Art · Heritage · Rome
The very ancient church of Santa Bibiana is now almost built into the Roma Termini railway station, and in fact is barely visible behind the station's buildings. Inside the church, in the main altar, lie the relics of the saint. Besides such holy objects as the column at
Art · Mores · Humour
Makovsky's painting of 1872 is called "Secretly from His Wife"
Museums · Heritage · Society · People
Mikhail Piotrovsky has summed up the work of the Union of Museums of Russia. The occasion: the Union of Museums has presented a strategy for the development of the sector over the next five years. Among its proposals are the legislative definition of the terms "museum" and "
Archive · Books · Moscow · Observations · Education
Mikhail Alexandrovich Dmitriev, an old Russian writer of the Slavophile circle, now almost forgotten, recalls the Church Slavonic classes of his university years in this way. Professor of Slavonic philology Matvey Gavrilov proposed that, wherever possible, Russian words in speech be exchanged for Slavonic ones, and the result was handsome:
NB! · Archive · Mores · People
Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff with ladies on the steps of the manor house at the Krasnenkoye estate, Voronezh Governorate, in 1899. Posing with Rachmaninoff are two charming dogs, together with Natalya Alexandrovna Satina, Yelena Yulyevna Kreutzer, Natalia Nikolayevna Lanting and Madame Mayevskaya.
Faith · Observations · Society
Such a union is possible only if all branches of the church are brought into conformity with Orthodoxy, which alone, by the criteria of historical and liturgical continuity, corresponds to the image of the Christian Church under the Apostles. This is confirmed by its unbroken succession, by its very structure,
Architecture · Observations · Society · Paris
The Triangular Tower in Paris: Expectation and Reality. Though both are equally ill-suited to the balance of the capital's panorama and to the elegance of the silhouette of the most beautiful city in the world. Most curious of all, the chief reasons for the existence of this
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Listings · Moscow · Coming Up · Art · Museums
📌 Closing soon: the exhibition “The Rules of the Game: How Sport Shaped Culture” at the New Manege, until 4 December 📌 Closing soon: Mikhail Krunov’s exhibition “The Supracultural Absolute, or a Sensory Investigation of Time” at the a—s—t—r—a gallery, until 5 October 📌 The exhibition “From Dawn
Art · Science · Paris
It is not every day that experts discover a new masterpiece of the seventeenth century. A painting created by Rubens around 1614–1615 has been found among the belongings of the late owner of a Parisian town house. In 400 years the picture has survived in excellent condition. After X-
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Archive · Society · Saint Petersburg
Yegor Larichkin, accused in the case of the murder of Mikhail Gertsenshtein, together with his guards at a window of the building where the court sessions were held. Terijoki, Grand Duchy of Finland, 1909. Now Zelenogorsk, a district of Saint Petersburg. The Russian Empire we have lost