Coming Up · Moscow · Museums · New York · Society
Today at the Museum of Russian Impressionism we talk with respected people about the cultural parallels between New York in the 1920s and Moscow in the 2020s. The angle is original and, I am sure, we may count on an unconventional view and, in the end, finally work out what
NB! · Cinema · Pop Culture
Monica Bellucci in one of her first film roles: one of Dracula's brides in Francis Ford Coppola's "Dracula" of 1992. Beside her are Michaela Bercu and Florina Kendrick, whose names, if one is to be honest, I have never happened to hear
Observations · Society · Reportage · Society Pages
Friends and colleagues, I see that my announcement about Club 418 has interested and even stirred many of you. I hasten to report from the scene of events, from the final lecture of Club 418, which, like the very first lecture 9 years ago, was given by Edvard Radzinsky. Only
Education · Society
Irina Kudrina announces that Club 418, which she runs with Nadya Obolentseva, is ceasing its activities. At least in its customary lecture format upd *is ceasing its lecture activities for club members
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Observations · Science · Humour
At last, a database of full-text scholarly publications has been found that allows one to search academic journals published before the Nativity of Christ. As a man who regards the sixteenth century as the recent past and can recall the contents of a Sumerian clay tablet dated to 3000
Archive · Books · Monarchies · People
A photograph of 1910: the old man here is 80, and he will go on reigning for another 6 years and live to see the murder of his heir, Archduke Franz Ferdinand. If you remember the novel «The Man Without Qualities», the preparations for the coming seventieth anniversary of Franz
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Architecture · Moscow · Museums
The Pushkin Museum Has Been Given Light. “What followed was very hard, I would say bloody, work, which only appears to be white,” Marina Loshak. The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts is undergoing a re-display. You will not recognise the museum when you come to the main building.
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Why on earth is Marina Devovna Loshak so delightful ☺️
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At last we have lived to see the day when the names of Xavier Dolan, Vincent Lacoste, Cécile de France and HONORÉ DE BALZAC share a single poster. This year sees the release of the screen adaptation of one of Balzac's most touching novels, Lost Illusions. Farewell, Elio