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Alexandr Radayev
Books · Observations
In modern retellings of the Arthurian legends, the wizard Merlin is usually portrayed as a wise mentor and omniscient greybeard, but in the "Life of Merlin", written by Geoffrey of Monmouth around 1150, the most legendary wizard of all times and peoples a
In modern retellings of the Arthurian legends, the wizard Merlin is usually portrayed as a wise mentor and omniscient greybeard, but in the "Life of Merlin", written by Geoffrey of Monmouth around 1150, the most legendary wizard of all times and peoples appears as a madman, an eccentric
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Singing cavalrymen with lances and cymbals on the march, painting detail
Art · Monarchies · Museums · Paris · Saint Petersburg
The Cossacks of the Ataman Regiment
The Cossacks of the Ataman Regiment. The painting "The Return to Camp at Krasnoye Selo of the Cossacks of the Life-Guards Ataman Regiment" was painted by Jean-Baptiste Édouard Detaille in 1889 on commission from the Tsarevich Nicholas. It adorns the corner drawing room of the Alexander
NB! · Humour
A Young Man?
A young man? What young man?
NB! · Cinema · Observations · People
In memory of Belmondo, a little over a year after his death
Belmondo died little more than a year ago. One wants to remember him
The East · Monarchies · People
Borodin’s musical picture “In Central Asia” for the anniversary of Alexander II’s reign
During his visit to Kazakhstan, Pope Francis confessed that he had known nothing of Central Asia before, apart from the music of Borodin. To catch the link between, presumably, Alexander Porfiryevich Borodin and the Central Asian region, where the composer never lived, never served and never set foot, is rather
Faith · Society
Pilgrims visit two panes of glass with the face of John the Baptist in a church in Mayakovsky
Residents of Mayakovskoye, a village in the Kaliningrad region, bear witness to the miraculous appearance of the face of John the Baptist on a pane of glass in the church of the Great Martyr Panteleimon. Clergy of the church relate that in 2020, at the onset of the pandemic, the
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Painting by Frederick Sandys created in 1864
Fata Morgana. Frederick Sandys, 1864
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Twelve-year-old Princess Elizabeth with her grandmother, the Dowager Queen Mary of Teck
Art · Moscow · Museums · Reportage
Continuing my live report from the Association of Galleries meeting at Cosmoscow
Gorlova, head of the Department of Newest Trends at the State Tretyakov Gallery, complains of a lack of funding for exhibition activity. “For the most part, it is sponsors' money,” she says. “Funding for contemporary art exhibitions, as we know, is harder still to obtain. Besides, there have been
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Sergei Popov, founder of the pop/off/art gallery, at a discussion of the Association of Galleries held as part of Cosmoscow, gave a simple example of why museum collections must be topped up with contemporary art
It turns out that an artist as significant as Erik Bulatov is represented in Russia at the Tretyakov Gallery and in a small museum in Vyksa, while in Saint Petersburg, say, the Russian Museum does not show him in its permanent display. "It's simply laughable," Popov