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Alexandr Radayev
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AZ/ART Centre of Contemporary Art opens in Moscow with the exhibition “Non-Obvious Intersections”
Another serious cultural institution has appeared on the map of Moscow: the AZ/ART Centre for Contemporary Art. The centre is housed in a historic seventeenth-century building on Maroseika. Its opening is marked by an exhibition, a joint project with the Foundation of the composer Nikolai Karetnikov, entitled "
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Ivan VI in a 1763 genealogical table and his imprisonment at Kholmogory and Shlisselburg
The Genealogy of Peter III from Goudar's Book of 1763. The most intriguing thing in this document is the mention of Ioann Antonovich, or Emperor Ivan VI, a second cousin once removed of Peter III. At the time of this book's publication, 1763, Ivan VI, confined
Art · Books · Saint Petersburg
Dmitry Kedrin's poem “Beauty” about Russia, 5 September 1942
"1918 in Petrograd" and "Our Lady of Tenderness Towards Evil Hearts", Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin. Beauty These proud brows of Vincian Madonnas I have met more than once on Russian peasant women, On young Ryazan wives, bent double with toil, Threshing sheaves on the threshing-floor at
Archive · Mores · Saint Petersburg
Restaurant coupon for 20 kopecks from the Stray Dog cafe in Saint Petersburg, 1912
A restaurant coupon of 20 kopecks from the Saint Petersburg literary café "The Stray Dog Cellar. Mikhailovskaya Square, 5", 1912. Officially, the Stray Dog was called the "Artistic Society of the Intimate Theatre", and in this literary and artistic café the key Petersburg figures of the
Art · Observations · Humour
"A New Life Begins" or "Dante and Beatrice in the Garden"
Painter: Cesare Saccaggi, 1903 If anyone has been wanting to begin a new life, why not today? Even without Beatrice.
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Night view of St. Peter's Square and Basilica in Rome with smoke and lights, watercolour
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In the 16th to 18th Centuries Rome Was One of the Most Depicted Cities in the World
In the 16th to 18th centuries Rome was one of the most depicted cities in the world. Dozens of vedutisti from many countries sought to capture its appearance. This allows us today to trace every stage of the city's transformation and its different faces: from the melancholy landscapes
Art · Moscow · Museums · Rome
Mask of a River God from a Roman Sarcophagus of the Third Century
From the collection of the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts. Exhibition "Three Times of Rome. Antiquity. Renaissance. Baroque"
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Evelyn Waugh and the Sphinxes
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We Have Napoleon at Home
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In her Decree to the Senate after the overthrow of Peter III, Catherine calls him not sovereign, not Grand Duke, not husband, not even Peter Fyodorovich, but "the former Emperor"
In her Decree to the Senate after the overthrow of Peter III, Catherine calls him not sovereign, not Grand Duke, not husband, not even Peter Fyodorovich, but "the former Emperor". Of herself, however, Catherine writes: "the true Sovereign" and "Our Imperial Majesty"