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Alexandr Radayev
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21 December is the winter solstice, the shortest day of the year, after which comes the longest night of the year
21 December is the winter solstice, the shortest day of the year, after which comes the longest night of the year. Astronomical winter is held to begin precisely at the winter solstice. It will last until 20 March 2025, the day of the spring equinox
Cinema · Books · Pop Culture
Netflix adapts García Márquez's “One Hundred Years of Solitude”, with his sons as producers
Netflix has released a series based on Gabriel García Márquez's novel "One Hundred Years of Solitude". The first season contains 8 episodes of the 16 planned; the second half of the series is expected in 2025. Although "No One Writes to the Colonel" and
NB! · Archive · Art · Monarchies
A Snow Statue of Queen Victoria, Made in the Winter of 1890
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Geography · Maps · Humour
Olaf Magnus’s “Carta Marina”, one of the earliest maps of Northern Europe
Pointing out on the map where Santa Claus comes from. The Carta Marina of the Swedish churchman, diplomat and writer Olaus Magnus is one of the earliest and most reliable historical maps of Northern Europe
Coming Up · The East · Art · Moscow · Museums · Saint Petersburg
A Few Words on the Tretyakov Gallery's Exhibition Plans
The Tretyakov Gallery will open the year with a retrospective of the artist Francisco Infante, "The Formula of Infinity". In spring the New Tretyakov will host the exhibition "The Road to the East", a project about the Russian artists who worked in Central Asia in the
Coming Up · Art · Museums · Saint Petersburg
“Repin. Details” exhibition for Ilya Repin’s 180th birthday opens at Academy of Arts Museum
The Academy of Arts Museum in Saint Petersburg has opened the exhibition "Repin. Details." The project marks the 180th anniversary of the birth of Ilya Repin and is devoted to the world of objects in the paintings of the great Russian artist, to his approach to work, and
Books · Mores · People
The expression “Balzacian age” came into use after the appearance in 1842 of Honoré de Balzac's novel “The Woman of Thirty”
A woman of Balzacian age is between thirty and forty
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Book page with the poem "Fountain" in front of abstract paintings
NB! · Books · Society Pages
Ksenia Chilingarova reads her poems with great feeling at the launch of K. Bondyreva's collection of lyric verse "Dear Friend,"
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Yevgeny Rukhin archive studied at Tretyakov expert institute ahead of 2025 exhibition
At the Tretyakov Independent Research Expertise Centre, specialists are studying the archive of one of the most prominent representatives of non-conformism, Yevgeny Rukhin, the initiator of the famous Bulldozer Exhibition in Moscow. A year ago the artist Yan Ginzburg bought the archive from the heiress of the artist'