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Alexandr Radayev
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You on the Internet vs You in Life
Art · Moscow · Museums · Observations · Humour
This Is What People Look Like When They Try to Break into a Private Account Under Fake Names
While Urs Fischer, the Muses of Montparnasse and the exhibition design of the Tretyakov Gallery and the Historical Museum drive the lovers of internet battles out of their minds, the A.S. Pushkin State Museum is quietly hosting "Poets and Muses", and the display is adorned with these
Books · Moscow · Observations · Society Pages · Humour
In Yury Trifonov's immortal novella “The Exchange” there were two design bureaux, No. 2 and No. 3: the Threes played five-minute blitz chess, the Twos played ping-pong
In Yury Trifonov's immortal novella “The Exchange” there were two design bureaux, No. 2 and No. 3: the Threes played five-minute blitz chess, the Twos played ping-pong. Of course, a more obvious example of the passion for “small tennis” is the duels between the institute staff
Books · Observations · Humour
Putnam's cover cites Nabokov's “Pnin” to draw on the success of “Lolita”
On 18 August 1958 Nabokov's "Lolita" was first published in the USA and for the second time in English. The cover of the New York: Putnam's edition bore the legend "by the author of Pnin". What sort of Pnin was that? It
Geography · Maps · Books · Observations · Humour
Map of Britain in a 1961 Soviet book and the wrong placement of Nottinghamshire
The authors of a curious little book, "Atomic Energy in Aviation and Rocket Technology" (1961), seem to be asking us: what, exactly, matters most in a map? Fidelity of scale, beauty of line, the number of dragons and sea monsters in the margins, the power to frighten, or,
Art · Observations · Humour
Elizaveta Likhacheva comments on the controversy over sculptor Urs Fischer's work
Elizaveta Likhacheva has spoken, as usual, pithily and to the point. In the general hullabaloo over Urs Fischer's work one can put a full stop. As for the sculptor himself, his career is in any case on the up, and along that road one may stumble upon deposits
Art · Moscow · Museums · Observations
Tatyana Mavrina exhibition “Ode to Joy” ends at the Tretyakov Gallery Engineering Building
The Tretyakov Gallery's Engineering Building has closed a large and very rich exhibition of Tatyana Mavrina (1900-1996), a pupil of Falk, better known to the public for her numerous illustrations, above all of Pushkin and of Russian fairy tales. But besides illustrations, Mavrina, who studied at Vkhutemas,
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The King Is Coming
Faith · Art · Humour
Andrea Mantegna, 1480-1490
Andrea Mantegna, 1480-1490. The Virgin and Child with Saints. Beside them stand Joseph, the righteous Elizabeth, in all likelihood with Joachim, and the little John the Baptist, two teeth freshly cut, the only one who has allowed himself to stick his tongue out at the Saviour. That very friend
Archive · Faith · Rome
Pius XII proclaims the dogma of the Assumption of Mary at St Peter's on 1 November 1950
A not-so-old photograph from Saint Peter's Basilica, 1 November 1950, when Pope Pius XII proclaimed the Dogma of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, on the taking up of the Mother of God into heaven, body and soul, at the end of her earthly life.
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Facade of the house in Ajaccio, Corsica, where Napoleon was born on 15 August 1769
The house in which Napoleon was born on 15 August 1769. Ajaccio, Corsica