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Alexandr Radayev
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This is how Christopher Nolan's Greeks look
Moscow · Society
Moscow's 99 theatres and concert halls introduce ID-based ticket sales
New rules for buying tickets to theatres and concert halls have taken effect in Moscow. To purchase tickets, one must now present a passport or other identity documents. The pilot project covers 99 institutions, including the Sovremennik theatre, the Lenkom of Mark Zakharov, the Zaryadye concert hall and the Moscow
Museums · Society · Nature · Humour
Karamelka the pony from Tsarskoye Selo leads among five contest finalists
Ministry of Culture Holds Contest for the Title of Chief Pet-Guardian of Cultural Institutions. The finalists are Karamelka the pony from Tsarskoye Selo, Thomas the cat from the Ivan Pavlovich Bardin Museum of Science and Technology, Mashunya the cat from the Pskov City Cultural Centre, Dymka the cat from
Aristocracy · Archive · Faith · Moscow · Mores
The Military Governor of Moscow, Yury Vladimirovich Dolgorukov, Was a Great Friend of the Eminent Grandee Stepan Stepanovich Apraksin, Formerly Military Governor of Smolensk and Known Above All for His Lavish Receptions at His House on…
According to the account of Elizaveta Petrovna Yankova, Apraksin and Dolgorukov had a rather peculiar agreement: whichever of them died first was to give a sign to the other, who remained among the living, and to appear to him three times before his death, to announce that the hour had
Faith · Art · Observations · Ethnography
Folk sayings for Evdokia's Day and a fresco from St George's Church in Staro Nagoričane
15 March, the day of the Hieromartyr Theodotus, Bishop of Cyrenia, is marked in the folk calendar as Fedot the Wind-Bringer, Fedot the Snow-Drift, Fedot of Spring, Gale-Whirlers. Evdokia never asked Fedot, and got the spring ready anyway. And he: now he tears the roof off the
Coming Up · Art · Moscow · Museums
Exhibition of the MMOMA collection for the museum's 25th anniversary on Petrovka until 15 April
A remarkable exhibition of the museum's collection, amassed over 25 years, is on at the Moscow Museum of Modern Art on Petrovka. MMOMA is usually perceived as a scattering of exhibition spaces across the city centre, and it is all the more interesting to make acquaintance with the
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Princess Diana at the funeral service for the fashion designer Gianni Versace in Milan Cathedral, the Duomo, 22 July 1997
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Metal "Books" floor lamp with a vice holding a stack of old books
Metal "Books" floor lamp with a vice holding a stack of old books. Christian-Marie Bertolino, 1951
Art · Books
Nikolay Zabolotsky’s poem “On the Beauty of Human Faces” with a painting by Sychkov
Есть лица, подобные пышным порталам, Где всюду великое чудится в малом. Есть лица — подобия жалких лачуг, Где варится печень и мокнет сычуг. Иные холодные, мертвые лица Закрыты решетками, словно темница. Другие — как башни, в которых давно Никто не живет и не смотрит в окно. Но малую хижинку знал я когда-
Books · Observations · Society · Humour
Prince Andrey in Speransky’s Commission and the Codes of Napoleon, Justinian and Hammurabi
The Legislative Commission has existed for a hundred and fifty years, has cost millions and has accomplished nothing. Do you remember how Prince Andrei did not wish to join the commission for the compilation of laws, pleading that it required a legal education, which he did not possess? And Speransky,
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Elizabeth Jane Howard on her giftedness and her skill at sleeping late
"I'm not lazy. I'm simply very gifted, but instead of being good at music or mathematics, I am skilled at sleeping late" Elizabeth Jane Howard, writer, actress and model