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Alexandr Radayev
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When "Constantinople" Was Said Instead of "Istanbul"
Architecture · Faith · The East · Heritage
The Constantinopolitan Church of Hagia Sophia, now Istanbul's principal mosque of Ayasofya, which ceased to be a museum in 2020, is to undergo restoration
The roof of the church, which is inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List, will be dismantled. The specialists promise to employ methods and materials appropriate to the era of the Ottoman Empire. Since the ceiling of Hagia Sophia is adorned with priceless Byzantine mosaics (parts of which are covered)
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Plasticine kinetic composition of red, green and blue elements
Art · Moscow · Museums · Observations · Society Pages · Humour
A great many people at the opening of "Forward to Zlotnikov" at Ground Solyanka
Those who remember the exhibition "Zlotnikov. The Signal System" at the New Tretyakov Gallery will find that it differs from this one. At Ground Solyanka there is more painting, and there are sculptures that I, for one, am seeing for the first time, while documents and photographs are
The East · Art · Observations · Ethnography
Similarities between Abramtsevo carving and Afghan household objects of the early 20th century
Everyone probably knows, or has at least once seen in a museum, Abramtsevo carving and the household objects and furniture made in its techniques. The craft is sometimes called Abramtsevo-Kudrino carving, and it is connected above all with Abramtsevo, Polenovo and the name of the artist Elena Dmitrievna Polenova.
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White sculpture of a lace tablecloth draped over a cube
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Skilled Work, Then and Now:
Archive · Architecture · Observations · Saint Petersburg
Construction of a new archive complex on Zanevsky Prospect has been completed in Saint Petersburg
"There will be two reading rooms for working with original documents: this will solve the problem of the queue that exists today. We have created comfortable conditions for the specialists of the Restoration Laboratory," the city's mayor reported. The design, of course…
Art · People
A Knitted Doily in Carrara Marble
The Greek sculptor Argyris Rallias, born in 1993. We shall not compare him with the masterpieces of the past, but by the standards of our own times it looks rather good
NB! · The East · Cinema · Observations · Humour
The bishop's tent and the whole setting of the scene before the Russian host's battle with the Livonian dog-knights in the film "Alexander Nevsky" recall the pavilions of the Saracens, especially as the snow looks rather more like sand
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