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Alexandr Radayev
Faith · Art · Moscow · Museums · People
Bringing Ivanov’s “The Appearance of Christ” to Russia and to the Tretyakov Gallery
Alexander Ivanov worked on “The Appearance of Christ Before the People” for twenty years, although he had expected to finish it within the span of his Italian placement. His close friend Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol, incidentally portrayed in the painting as the figure nearest to Christ, wrote that “Ivanov has long
Faith · Art · Observations
The author recalls the Easter phone wallpapers from the year before last
Remembered the Easter wallpapers for phones from the year before last. Enjoy
Coming Up · Art · Observations
On Monday we went to the Alina Pinsky Gallery to see the True Colours exhibition, and I am still under the spell of its play with colour; I deliberately tried to catch several rooms in a single frame, to show the dialogue across the white walls between…
On Monday we went to the Alina Pinsky Gallery to see the True Colours exhibition, and I am still under the spell of its play with colour; I deliberately tried to catch several rooms in a single frame, to show the dialogue across the white walls between dissimilar but equally
Coming Up · Art · Moscow
Pavel Pepperstein and Sonya Stereostyrski presented the series “Ziggurats” at Vladey
Observing Passengers on the Metro. The duo of Pavel Pepperstein and Sonya Stereostyrski has presented a new series of works, "Ziggurats", at the Vladey space
Cinema · People · Humour
Don't Worry, at This Battle You Will Be the Handsomest Man on the Field
Rod Steiger as Napoleon on the set of Sergei Bondarchuk's epic historical film "Waterloo", about Bonaparte's last great battle
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The Hôtel Le Grand Mazarin in Paris has lovely rooms, but I would rather not have a carpet hanging over my head, even if it were the most thoroughly cleaned in the world and went by the name of tapestry
Cinema · Observations · Pop Culture · Humour
Netflix film by producer Jada Pinkett Smith on a Black Cleopatra and the Ptolemaic dynasty
⚡️Comrades, Cleopatra Was Black⚡️. At least, that is what is claimed in Netflix's new "documentary", produced by Jada Pinkett Smith, the very wife of Will Smith who cheated on him with their son's friend, who began crying "racism! racism!" in 2016 when
Cinema · Books · Moscow · Mores
Premiere of “104 Pages About Love” after Radzinsky’s play at the Taganka Theatre
Another premiere this week is "104 Pages About Love", based on the play that made Edvard Radzinsky famous sixty years ago, a play about how people fall into love as one falls under a train. It is the very play on which Natanson based his legendary 1968 film
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Two men in white coats at a blackboard of formulas on a stage
Art · Books · Observations · People · Rome
I got for my labour only a goitre, a sickness (So muddy water bloats the cats, A common plague in parts of Lombardy!) And my chin wedged into my belly; My chest like that of the harpies; my skull, to spite me, Crept up to my hump; and my beard bristles on
I got for my labour only a goitre, a sickness (So muddy water bloats the cats, A common plague in parts of Lombardy!) And my chin wedged into my belly; My chest like that of the harpies; my skull, to spite me, Crept up to my hump; and my beard
Aristocracy · Archive · Monarchies · Science · People
To mark Cosmonautics Day, here is a photograph of James Lindsay, 26th Earl of Crawford (1847-1913), President of the Royal Astronomical Society, dressed in heraldic regalia for the coronation of King George V in 1911
In the intervals of his aristocratic existence, this imposing old gentleman assembled one of the largest libraries of rare books in England, organised expeditions to the East to observe solar eclipses and the transit of Venus, built a private observatory, patronised astronomers, became a sponsor of the founding of the