NB! · Art · Ethnography
Alexandr Radayev
Museums · Observations · Society · Saint Petersburg
Author backs the Hermitage in dispute with visitors over commercial filming
Regarding the girls who slipped into the Hermitage for a commercial shoot, avoiding the official fee for this kind of use of museum spaces, the following must be understood. No one's private commercial interests should be placed on the opposite pan of the scales from good order in
NB! · Faith · Society · People · Rome
Pope Francis's First Public Appearance After Hospitalisation
Art · Books · Moscow
Mayakovsky’s poem “Good Attitude to Horses” about a horse that fell in the street
Hooves were beating. As though they sang: "Mush- room. Plun- der. Tomb. Rude." Drunk with the wind, shod with ice, the street was sliding. A horse on her croup crashed down, and at once one idler after another idler, who had come to flap their trousers about Kuznetsky,
Archive · Books · People
Tolstoy's love of horses, from Pirogovo to Delir in Yasnaya Polyana
Tolstoy was madly fond of horses. At the age of ten he left his first account of the impression made on him by an acquaintance with horses at the stud farm in Pirogovo. This childish rapture he later gave to Nikolenka Irtenyev in "Childhood": I was in a
NB! · Archive · In the Press · London · Monarchies · Society
The Abdication of Nicholas II as Reported in the British Press: AMAZING NEWS
NB! · Archive · Society
An Anti-Bolshevik Poster of the 1920s
NB! · Pop Culture · Ethnography · Humour
Barbie: Russian Beauty
Art · Madrid · Museums · Science
The Prado Museum Offers Free Access to Aracne, a Programme That Analyses Painting Canvases to Aid Scholarly Research
The programme took 10 years to develop: it automatically counts the threads of a canvas, which makes it possible to refine attribution and dating. With its help, a painting attributed to Francisco Rizi in a 2023 exhibition has been reattributed to Francisco Herrera the Younger. The programme can be used
NB! · Art · Observations
They say a still life is dead nature. But it feels otherwise
They say a still life is dead nature. But it feels otherwise
NB! · Archaeology · Museums · Paris · Ethnography
On the bright spring festival of Nauryz, let us recall the exhibition of treasures from the steppes of Kazakhstan at the Musée Guimet in Paris, which is open for its last three days
NB! · London · Observations · Humour
A stop at the US Embassy in London
A stop at the US Embassy in London. Er, so much for the English sense of humour