A rusty metal pile with a Corinthian capital above dark water, with pale apartment buildings on the far shore under a blue sky.

NB! · Architecture · Art · Saint Petersburg

Boremir Bakharev created a mooring pile with a Corinthian capital for the “Waterfront/Водная линия” competition

Art object "Mooring Post with a Metal Capital of the Corinthian Order", made from an old metal pipe with the addition of a Corinthian capital by the artist Boremir Bakharev in 2021 for the "Waterfront/Vodnaya liniya" competition. Saint Petersburg, waters of the River Smolenka

Landscape with a wide river and a bridge, buildings along the banks and the Kremlin visible on the horizon under a cloudy sky.

Art · Paris · Humour

Erik Bulatov painted “Paris. Kremlin” in 1992

The Best View in Paris Is, of Course, of the Kremlin. Erik Bulatov, “Paris. Kremlin”, 1992

NB! · Faith · Humour

The main thing with this hairstyle is that the Philistine woman does not creep up on you

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In October 1944 the head of the Ancient East department of the Pushkin Museum submitted an official memorandum to the museum's director about a business trip to the town of Sukhoy Log in the Sverdlovsk region

In October 1944 the head of the Ancient East department of the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts submitted an official memorandum to the museum's director about a business trip to the town of Sukhoy Log in the Sverdlovsk region. Vsevolod Pavlov, a specialist in Ancient Egypt who had

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That was a funny idea of yours

Books · Observations · Science

"It Was Forever Until It Was No More"

There was such a good book, if you remember, by the Russian and American anthropologist Alexei Yurchak

NB! · Books · Observations · Humour

In Case You Didn't Know, Larisa Ogudalova Invented Cringe

In case you didn't know, Larisa Ogudalova invented cringe. Or rather, Alexander Nikolayevich Ostrovsky did.

Cinema · Observations · Society

You may express your opinion, provided it is the right sort of opinion; otherwise it will not be taken into account

What a disgrace. Not content with cinemas openly infringing copyright and charging admission for stolen films, we now have online platforms deciding for themselves how film output is to be rated. - We are here -

NB! · Moscow · Education · Society

Chief Accountant of the University Appointed Acting Rector of GITIS

The East · Art · Books · Mores · Ethnography

Iranian Women of the Qajar Era in Japanese Woodcuts from the Book by the Engineer and Topographer Naoyuki Furukawa, Describing Japan's First Diplomatic Contact with Iran in 1880 and 1881

Iranian women of the Qajar era in Japanese woodcuts from the book by the engineer and topographer Naoyuki Furukawa, describing Japan's first diplomatic contact with Iran in 1880 and 1881. The mission was carried out under the leadership of Yoshida Masaharu. Besides recounting the incidents of the journey,

Archive · Books · Mores · People · Saint Petersburg

Alexander Kuprin at a Feast in a Pushkin House Negative and His Taste for Food

In a photograph of the 1910s taken in Saint Petersburg by the master of reportage Iosif Otsup, Alexandr Kuprin sits second from the left at a laid table. The archivists of Pushkin House have provisionally titled this negative a novelist's feast in the company of friends. The identities

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