Architecture · Moscow · Heritage · Society
Grachev Dacha Demolished on Sparrow Hills in Moscow: the Last Surviving Wooden House in the District. The building at 18 Kosygin Street had been on the list of newly identified monuments since 2005. In March 2025 Mosgornasledie (the Moscow heritage authority) declined to enter it in the register of cultural
Architecture · Faith · Art · Moscow · Museums
The painting "Footballer" by Alexander Deineka, which can be seen at the artist's exhibition at the Tretyakov Gallery on Kadashevskaya, depicts the bell tower of the Church of John the Baptist in Yaroslavl, the very one that appears on the 1,000-rouble banknote. The 45-
NB! · Moscow · Observations
A floating drilling rig on a pontoon raft on the Vodootvodny Canal, on the Bolotnaya Embankment side, between the Patriarshy Bridge (closed) and the Maly Kamenny Bridge. What are they drilling for? I have grown curious.
Architecture · Faith · Heritage · Paris
The first statue to be placed on the spire was that of Saint Thomas, and it is in many ways a symbolic choice. Saint Thomas is regarded as the patron saint of architects. The composition consists of figures of the 12 apostles and four symbolic figures of the evangelists: an
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In the sculpture courtyard of the A.V. Shchusev Museum of Architecture, the open restoration of the memorial monument with the bust of Catherine II, created by the sculptor Vasily Ivanovich Demut-Malinovsky in 1834, has come to an end. The monument is an allegorical sculptural group on a single
Coming Up · Moscow · Pop Culture · Reportage
Today at the Moscow Variety Theatre the first chords sounded of one of the most anticipated premieres of this autumn: a press conference was held there to present the musical “Waltz-Boston”. There was as yet no orchestra and no full glare of the footlights, but there were sketches of
In the Press · Art · Museums · Heritage
The Bern Museum of Fine Arts has announced a substantial overhaul of its principles concerning works of art confiscated by the Nazis, reports Artguide. Among the new principles, for instance, is a broader definition of works lost by their owners during Nazi persecution: such works now include those confiscated, those
Books · Observations · Society · Humour
Even so, you will understand, half a million people a year is catastrophically few for a literate, educated country of 140 million. Sad, comrades I alone visit some 300 times a year, though it is unclear here whether they counted unique visitors or the total number of visits. If the
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It is laughable to speak of literature now, because it is not the time of literature at all: visual practices have won a total victory and have entirely crushed the printed word. The word has been stripped of its former myth, and the influence of the visual will grow through
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Solemn Promise to His Imperial Majesty the Sovereign Emperor and Grand Duke Alexander Nikolayevich. "I, the undersigned, promise and swear by Almighty God, before His Holy Gospel, that I desire and am bound to serve faithfully and without hypocrisy, and to obey in all things, His Imperial Majesty, my
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John the Forerunner. Icon from the iconostasis of the Cathedral of the Nativity of the Mother of God at the Ferapontov Monastery. 1490s or 1502-1503. Attributed to Dionisius, the first Russian icon painter of secular status