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Alexandr Radayev
Moscow · Museums · Observations · People
If, like me, you spent years riding the “Bukashka” along the Garden Ring and, hearing the announcement of the stop “Chekhov House-Museum”, thought: “The Chekhov museum, I really must go in”, then right now, for example, there is a curious exhibition there
Thanks to the exhibition, which has the witty title “I Have No Better Photograph”, I learned that Anton Pavlovich was very fond of being photographed. True, he was not particularly inclined to change his pose. There are dozens of pictures taken many years apart in which he sits literally in
NB! · Books · Moscow · Museums
The pen with which Chekhov wrote The Cherry Orchard
The pen with which Chekhov wrote The Cherry Orchard. Chekhov House Museum, Moscow
Science · Pop Culture · Humour
A meme on how the world is full of physics for those who never studied magic
So invisibility cloaks are possible thanks to nanotechnology, metalenses and metamaterials, which bend light away from the concealed area, hiding it? As the well-known meme has it, for those who never studied magic, the world is full of physics
Architecture · Moscow · Heritage
New Stage of Reconstruction Begins on Foreign Ministry Skyscraper on Smolenskaya Square in Moscow
Moscow City Hall has announced a new stage in the reconstruction of one of the seven famous Stalinist high-rises, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs building on Smolenskaya Square. The façades of the central tower and of the 16-storey wings will be cleaned, the roof repaired and the plinth
Observations · Education · Society · Humour
A professor whose name may not be mentioned reports that, at a university whose name may not be mentioned, doctoral applicants write a special letter on the history of their vulnerability
A professor whose name may not be mentioned reports that, at a university whose name may not be mentioned, doctoral applicants write a special letter on the history of their vulnerability. A special committee, which did not exist ten years ago, awards them points on a certain scale and then
Architecture · Observations · Humour
The author examines a hole in the grand hall of Princess Serebryakova's mansion
Other People: Listening to the Lecture and Watching the Lecturer's Facial Expressions and Gestures. Me: Gazing at the breach in the wall of the state drawing room of Princess Serebryakova's mansion. How did you come to be here, my dear, by what fortunes, and how long
NB! · Observations · Rome
Rome, called the Eternal City, has turned 2777 years old
The Eternal City of Rome has turned 2777. Beloved for ever ❤️
Archive · Books · Mores · People
Tolkien's love for Edith from 1906 and the story of Beren and Luthien in “The Silmarillion”
In 1972, shortly after his wife's death, Tolkien wrote that he had never called her Lúthien, but that she was the source of the story at the heart of The Silmarillion. Ronald met Edith in 1906 and fell in love, but the orphaned Tolkien's guardian opposed
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A kind reminder that life is a struggle
Books · Observations · Humour
In the closing stanzas of "The Little House in Kolomna", Pushkin makes an unexpected remark on the subject of gender
In the closing stanzas of "The Little House in Kolomna", Pushkin makes an unexpected remark on the subject of gender. The jocular ending looks like a parody of the moralising pronouncements that were customary in the conclusions to depictions of the passions in his day, but in our
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