Faith · Art · Museums

Alexey Korzukhin's 1876 painting “Before Confession” in the Tver Gallery

Before Confession. Alexey Ivanovich Korzukhin, 1876, Tver Regional Picture Gallery. Korzukhin was one of the celebrated group of 14 rebellious top pupils of the Academy of Arts who refused to take part in the Academy's competition for the Grand Gold Medal, which would have given them six years

Portrait of a girl with auburn curls in a pink lace-trimmed dress with a red sash, in a gilded frame. A museum label below reads: unknown artist, 19th century, oil on canvas.

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Portrait of Grand Princess Catherine Pavlovna, copy after Dmitry Levitsky

Faith · Art · Museums · Observations · Paris

One fine cruise morning I am reading, in the ship's saloon, the latest issue of the Louvre's magazine Grande Galerie, whose cover shows a splendid detail from the portrait of one of the greatest mystics of the Church, Saint Bonaventure, by the Spanish pai

One fine cruise morning I am reading, in the ship's saloon, the latest issue of the Louvre's magazine Grande Galerie, whose cover shows a splendid detail from the portrait of one of the greatest mystics of the Church, Saint Bonaventure, by the Spanish painter Zurbarán, from

Observations · Pop Culture · Humour

At 4 a.m. one may feel all sorts of things; at that hour I am usually on my first sleep, or at a pinch choosing between the lamb chops at Coffeemania and the Olivier salad at Pushkin, but the pianist and composer Riyad Mammadov has presented quite a diffe

Spoiler: happily, I never have such melancholy 4 a.m.s

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Satie, Debussy and Stravinsky at a dinner in Debussy's apartment in June 1910

A Party at Debussy's House. These photographs show three composers who did much to shape the face of music at the beginning of the twentieth century: Erik Satie, Claude Debussy and Igor Stravinsky. The first photograph was taken by Stravinsky, the second by Satie. Stravinsky sits in the

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Few people know it, but the smallest pocket on a pair of jeans is actually intended for a very small icon, and the slightly larger pocket for an icon of medium size

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When you learn that the United States has declared itself the Lord's envoy on Earth

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My Best Purchase on Avito

Books · People

Any language is an alphabet of symbols, the use of which presupposes a past shared by the interlocutors

Jorge Luis Borges

Engraving of a woman in a cap and ruff changing a baby’s nappy in a room with a fireplace, baskets and a sleeping dog.

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Willem van de Passe’s 1624 engraving of a mother changing a baby’s nappy

Changing nappies has always been an equally agreeable pastime. Willem van de Passe, 1624

Black Adidas tracksuit trousers with white stripes hang on a hanger against a wall, with a pink flower embroidered at the crotch.

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Irina Petrakova's work from the Coming out series at the “Vse v Sad” exhibition at Ruarts foundation

Irina Petrakova. S from the Coming Out series. The exhibition “Everyone to the Garden” at the Ruarts Foundation

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Alexandr Radayev