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An Unexpected Greeting from the "Field of Miracles" Museum: Leonid Yakubovich Advertises the Premiere of Lavr at the Gorky Moscow Art Theatre

An unexpected greeting from the "Field of Miracles" Museum: Leonid Yakubovich advertises the premiere of Lavr at the Gorky Moscow Art Theatre. Such a touching merger of two forgotten universes that I quite wanted to reread Doronina's letter to Putin.

A room with turquoise walls painted with red flowers. Two portraits in ornate frames hang on the wall beside a painted door; a metal stove stands at right, with a chair and sofa below.

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Interior of a house with painted turquoise walls, floral ornament and portraits

Architecture · Art · Observations · Ethnography

Blacksmith Kirillov’s House in the Village of Kunara, Sverdlovsk Region, Built in 1954–1967

What does the country property of one's dreams look like? Here, for example, is the house of the blacksmith Kirillov in the village of Kunara in the Sverdlovsk Region, built in 1954-67 by a simple Russian man for himself and his family and decorated by his own

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And You Call That Fashion?

Close-up of a painted terracotta head of a man with parted lips, upturned gaze and short dark hair.

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Painted terracotta head of a Franciscan monk by Guido Mazzoni, 1475, Louvre

Head of a Franciscan Monk. Guido Mazzoni, painted terracotta sculpture, a kind of living painting frozen in place. 1475. The year fourteen hundred and seventy-five, exactly so. Collection of the Louvre

Black-and-white photograph of a two-storey building with a pediment on a snowy square, with two passers-by near the fence.

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Yury Pankratov on the demolition of the historic Sobachya Ploshchadka buildings during the construction of Kalinin Avenue in the 1960s

Sweeping away the mouldy vulgarity of Houses that huddle hunchbacked, Work proceeds at full throttle In the district of the Arbat... Yury Pankratov on the demolition of the old buildings of the historic Sobachya Ploshchadka complex in the 1960s, when Kalinin Avenue, now Novy Arbat, was driven through

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When I want to think of something pleasant, I remember pancakes, or photographs of Sophia Loren in Moscow

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Lyudmila Petrushevskaya on childhood in the Second House of Soviets and the Veger family's fate

“I am an old Muscovite and from birth I lived in the Metropol. In the Second House of Soviets. Where lived those members of the Comintern who had fled arrest in their own countries, and who by the time of my birth had already been shot or were serving their

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You Never Know What You Will See at the Met Gala, or Yulia Volkova's First Day at Work in the State Duma

Head with closed eyes covered in white plaster; red spiral patterns on the forehead and cheeks, partly worn away. Dark blue background.

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White sculpted head with red spiral ornament on the forehead

Archaeology · Cinema · Museums · Saint Petersburg · Ethnography

The funerary mask of the semi-legendary Empress Himiko in the film "Tomb Raider: Lara Croft" is a complete replica of a real woman's mask from the Oglakhty burial ground in Khakassia

The funerary mask of the semi-legendary Empress Himiko in the film "Tomb Raider: Lara Croft" is a complete replica of a real woman's mask from the Oglakhty burial ground in Khakassia. The painted plaster mask, made by a woman of the Tashtyk archaeological culture, dates

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When You Look Back and Realise That the Past Cannot Be Changed

A fragment of a bench from the church of Staffarda Abbey, not far from Turin. The wooden sculpture is housed in the museum of Palazzo Madama in Turin itself, while the Abbey, meanwhile, shows a distinct shortage of period furnishings, so that local historians and art historians are seriously murmuring

Alexandr Radayev