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Alexandr Radayev
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Winners of the youth category at the Russian Creative Awards announced
We recently looked together at the shortlist of the Russian Creative Awards, which for the first time in a long while included a category for young figures in culture, art and the creative industries (established jointly with the Tavrida art cluster). The awards ceremony took place on Friday, and we
NB! · Society
State Duma approves in first reading renaming of Rostov in Yaroslavl Region as Rostov Veliky
State Duma deputies have approved in first reading a bill renaming the town of Rostov in Yaroslavl Oblast as Rostov the Great. The document has been published in the legislative database of the lower house of parliament
Cinema · London · Monarchies
Casting of Wyler's comedy, Princess Margaret's romance and the fate of the screenplay Oscar
Audrey Hepburn at the party held on her return to London after filming «Roman Holiday» in 1953. At the outset the 24-year-old Hepburn was not even considered for the part of Princess Anne in William Wyler's romantic comedy; the leading contenders were Elizabeth Taylor and Jean
Art · Books · Museums · Paris
Pavel Antokolsky’s poem about Velázquez and the portrait of the Infanta
The painter was ardent, affable, pure, clever. He knew that the rosy, timid child Was long since dry and yellow, like a squeezed lemon; That in the pulse of those veins are the dreams of many buried; That it is not Brabant lace that is beyond price, But that, surely,
Coming Up · Faith · Art · London
El Greco depicts Saint Sebastian at the moment of revelation beneath a cloudy sky
Christie's in London to offer this remarkable Saint Sebastian by the great El Greco, thought to date from 1600, from a private collection. It is, perhaps, the most beautiful of the known portraits of Saint Sebastian created by El Greco. The saint is shown against an overcast, clouded
NB! · Monarchies · People
In essence, Prince Charles is one of the last bastions of English style
NB! · Observations
Not the Worst Scenario, Incidentally
Books
A sledge like this, such wretched trash, I've never seen in all my days; It shames a true-born Russian, rash to sit in foreign sleighs
Pyotr Vyazemsky, 1853, Dresden
Art · Observations
A Very Intriguing Scene: a Cavalier with a Masked Lady Seated Behind Him
The seventeenth-century Dutch watercolourist Gesina ter Borch and an unknown sixteenth-century Italian artist.
Architecture · Moscow · Heritage · Society
Archnadzor publishes a statement drawing attention to Article 17 of the new Moscow city law No. 24 "On Objects of Cultural Heritage"
Under this article, by 1 July 2025 all newly identified monuments must be entered in the register of regional objects of cultural heritage (OCH), which confers protected status. Those that fail to make it into the register will be struck from the list of identified monuments. There are currently 1,
Moscow · Museums · Observations · Humour
I kept wondering why the exhibition in the Green Foyer of the Moscow Art Theatre, devoted to six productions of "The Seagull" and at the same time to Chekhov's 165th anniversary, is called "From Konstantin to Konstantin"
I kept wondering why the exhibition in the Green Foyer of the Moscow Art Theatre, devoted to six productions of "The Seagull" and at the same time to Chekhov's 165th anniversary, is called "From Konstantin to Konstantin". It turns out that what is meant