In the Press · Cinema · New York
The 10 Best Films of the 21st Century According to The New York Times:. 1. Parasite, 2019, directed by Bong Joon Ho 2. Mulholland Drive, 2001, directed by David Lynch 3. There Will Be Blood, 2007, directed by Paul Thomas Anderson 4. In the Mood for Love, 2000, directed by
Society
A Short Memorandum on Russia's Victories in Europe in the 18th and 19th Centuries. In 1710 the Russian army took Riga, then Reval (Tallinn) and Åbo, then the principal city of Finland. In 1719 the Russian fleet landed troops in the suburbs of Stockholm. In 1760 the Russians
Architecture · Museums · Heritage · Saint Petersburg
The State Hermitage is to undertake a large-scale restoration of its buildings in the coming years. According to the museum's director, Mikhail Piotrovsky, the work will affect the Hermitage Theatre and the Menshikov Palace and will continue for several years. The plans include the restoration of façades,
Archive · Books · Moscow · People
A poster for the evening held by Vasily Kamensky in memory of Mayakovsky at the Bolshoi Theatre. Vasily Kamensky was a Futurist poet and a close friend of Mayakovsky for more than ten years; after the latter's death he published several books about the poet's life.
Architecture · Faith · Art
Saint Olga. Mikhail Nesterov. Sketch for the mural and the mural itself in St Vladimir's Cathedral in Kyiv, 1892
Geography · Observations · Society
From the news of the list of the twenty largest economies in the world: Spain is still on it, China has still not overtaken the USA, though for years we have been promised that this is about to happen (the gap, incidentally, is huge), but the gap between second and
The Leaning Tower of Bologna Has Been Under Threat for Several Years, but Has Not Yet Collapsed. https://theparnassian.com/padaiushchaia-bashnia-iz-bozhestvennoi-komedii-nakhoditsia-pod-ugrozoi-obrusheniia/
Cinema · People · Pop Culture
Yura Borisov Invited to Join the American Film Academy. Borisov is on a list of 534 performers and film industry professionals who have been invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences of the USA, the organisation that awards the Oscars each year. The list includes recent
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Faith · Art · Moscow · Museums · Heritage
In the fifteenth century the icon stood in the iconostasis of the Trinity Cathedral of the Lavra, founded by St Sergius of Radonezh. After the Revolution it was removed from the monastery, and in 1929, after nine years spent in the museum at Zagorsk, it was transferred to the Tretyakov
Books · Mores · Society
"That little dog was my only comfort. Carlo slept with me, and in the daytime never left my side for a step, and what clever eyes he had, as though he understood everything. Well, the other day I gathered some scraps by the kitchen and was feeding him, and
Art · Moscow · Museums · Saint Petersburg
The subject is a Russian peasant whom the invaders meant to conscript into Napoleon's army, and whose hand they branded with the letter N; whereupon, before the astonished eyes of the intruders, he hacked off his branded hand. The Roman Scaevola, that is to say the Left-Handed,