Tuesday, 3 November 2026

Alexandr Radayev

Meanwhile, Dostoevsky, one of the country's finest bookshops, is representing Russia and Russian literature at the Lisbon Book Fair, one of the oldest cultural festivals in Portugal

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Meanwhile, Dostoevsky, one of the country's finest bookshops, is representing Russia and Russian literature at the Lisbon Book Fair, one of the oldest cultural festivals in Portugal

Meanwhile, Dostoevsky, one of the country's finest bookshops, is representing Russia and Russian literature at the Lisbon Book Fair, one of the oldest cultural festivals in Portugal. On the stand I see not only the classics and editions devoted to Dostoevsky, but also a good deal of ordinary

By Alexandr Radayev
Three stages of one cake: scroll through the photos from the latest to the earliest and you get, quite literally, the restoration chronology of the federally protected heritage site in whose shape the cake was made

Architecture · Moscow · Heritage · Society Pages · Humour

Three stages of one cake: scroll through the photos from the latest to the earliest and you get, quite literally, the restoration chronology of the federally protected heritage site in whose shape the cake was made

In the year of its centenary, the Library of Foreign Literature has at last opened the restored late eighteenth-century house at Nikoloyamskaya, 6. The whole official upper crust of culture turned out for the occasion: the minister, deputies, heads of federal agencies, directors of institutions. Even Vladimir Medinsky sent

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