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Almost Carel Fabritius
Almost Carel Fabritius. This is how one would like Moscow's housing-office art to look, but alas, this is a quite different cultural city.
Alexandr Radayev
NB! · Observations · People · Pop Culture
Mood this evening: Lee Radziwill at home
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Neoclassical church with a portico and dome under an overcast sky
Architecture · Faith · Heritage
The Boris and Gleb Monastery in Torzhok from its 11th-century founding to the present
One of the oldest monasteries in Russia, founded, if the hagiographic literature is to be believed, in the first third of the eleventh century, is the Monastery of Saints Boris and Gleb in the town of Torzhok. No buildings earlier than the seventeenth century survive on its grounds; it is
NB! · Archive · Cinema · Moscow · Education
Mikhail Kozakov and Oleg Tabakov
Mikhail Kozakov and Oleg Tabakov. The MKhAT hostel, 1956
NB! · Art · Mores · Humour
Should you suddenly fancy a European tour of the sixteenth century, take along this aide-mémoire on how lace collars changed shape from decade to decade, so as not to mistake which decade you have landed in
NB! · Observations
You Clever Old Thing
Aristocracy · Art · Pop Culture · Humour
Words of praise for Maria Christina of Saxony
⚡️Female Version of the Laughing Mr Candy Meme Discovered. Bravo, Maria Christina of Saxony!
Archive · Moscow · Society · People
Perhaps the story of Lebedev-Kumach's madness is one of the most frequently retold memories of the hasty, chaotic and frightening evacuation of Moscow 80 years ago, when German troops closed in on the city's lines of defence and everyone in the capital…
Coming Up · Art · Education
Alisa Bagdonaite shares details of the Kyoto Art Center's residency programme for artists aged 65+
Details at the link: https://www.facebook.com/kyotoartcenter/
Coming Up · Art · Moscow
Meanwhile, in the Great Wine Cellar, that is, at the Winzavod Centre for Contemporary Art, an exhibition of the nominees for the Anatoly Zverev Prize is being prepared, running from 19 October to 21 November
Meanwhile, in the Great Wine Cellar, that is, at the Winzavod Centre for Contemporary Art, an exhibition of the nominees for the Anatoly Zverev Prize is being prepared, running from 19 October to 21 November. The photograph shows, besides the smiling gallerist Alina Pinskaya, the artist Evgeny Muzalevsky beside his
Aristocracy · In the Press · Monarchies · Observations · Society
Modern Romanovs and their claims to the Russian throne under pre-revolutionary law
The wedding of Georgy Mikhailovich Romanov has caused a great commotion, and waves of displeasure and outrage are still spreading across the windless surface of our infosphere. Characteristically, I have had messages from people among my acquaintances, even ones permitted to follow me on Insta, saying that all of us