Faith · People · Rome
Alexandr Radayev
Art · People · Nature
A Little Pug in an Enormous Red Armchair, Thomas Theodor Heine, 1902
A tiny, touching pug puppy is literally drowning in a sumptuous velvet armchair of a rich scarlet. Heine was a master of German Jugendstil and one of the founders of the legendary satirical magazine Simplicissimus; he was born in Leipzig in 1867, received a classical education at the Düsseldorf Academy
The East · Art · Mores
A Painting by Peter Paul Rubens Plunges the Viewer into the Dramatic History of the Ancient East
A painting by Peter Paul Rubens plunges the viewer into the dramatic history of the Ancient East. The subject is taken from the life of Queen Artemisia, who ruled Caria in the fourth century BC. This realm lay on the territory of present-day Turkey and formed part of the
The Golden Age · Art · Paris · People
Édouard Boubat, French photographer and acknowledged classic of the humanist school
Édouard Boubat was a French photographer and an acknowledged classic of the humanist school. While his contemporaries recorded social cataclysms, Boubat deliberately sought in his viewfinder moments of pure joy, tenderness and everyday harmony. Having survived the horrors of the Second World War and forced labour, he returned to his
Faith · Observations · Society · Paris · Humour
I Don't Care for Such Familiarity, but What Will the Pope Say?
On 18 September the Vatican declined several protocol proposals from the Élysée Palace, including the Legion of Honour and a visit to Notre-Dame. On 25 September Leo XIV publicly reprimanded Macron: war, euthanasia, the abandonment of the Church. Macron took offence and began boycotting Masses. But on 27 September,
Coming Up · Moscow · Education · People
After Boris Yukhananov's death, the director Alexey German Jr. recalled that in his youth Yukhananov used to convince beautiful women that he was a prince from a faraway land, and the women believed him
After Boris Yukhananov's death, the director Alexey German Jr. recalled that in his youth Yukhananov used to convince beautiful women that he was a prince from a faraway land, and the women believed him. The theatre critic Marina Davydova quoted a phrase with which Yukhananov himself explained his
Coming Up · Art · Moscow · People
On 30 September the Stanislavsky Electrotheatre will mark the birthday of its artistic director Boris Yukhananov, who died a year ago
On 30 September the Stanislavsky Electrotheatre will mark the birthday of its artistic director Boris Yukhananov, who died a year ago. The programme of the evening, titled "Picnic. Requiem", includes the opening of an exhibition and the presentation of the Foundation and of the festival "Boris Yukhananov
Observations · Humour
What are they talking about?
What are they talking about? What else but the fate of Russia?
The East · NB! · Archive · Geography
The Suuk-Su Resort at Gurzuf, Crimea, Early 1900s
The Golden Age · NB! · Archive · Architecture · Mores · Saint Petersburg
Interior view of the changing cubicles at the Yegorov Baths in Saint Petersburg, 1907
Architecture · Faith · Observations · Heritage
Palekh has a remarkable Church of the Exaltation of the Cross with an interesting tent-roofed bell tower
Palekh has a remarkable Church of the Exaltation of the Cross with an interesting tent-roofed bell tower. The people of Palekh built it all together, from 1762 to 1774. In Saint Petersburg at that time Rastrelli was giving way to Vallin de la Mothe, while in the Vladimir lands
The Golden Age · Coming Up · Art · Books · Moscow · People
Until 31 December the Galeev Gallery is showing an exhibition of Alexey Fyodorovich Pakhomov, Leningrad graphic artist, book illustrator, painter and porcelain master
Until 31 December the Galeev Gallery is showing an exhibition of Alexey Fyodorovich Pakhomov, Leningrad graphic artist, book illustrator, painter and porcelain master. The curators, Ildar Galeev and Kasia Denisevich, have for the first time tried to bring together what is usually scattered among museums and family archives: paintings, sketches