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The Institute of Russian Literature (Pushkin House) of the Russian Academy of Sciences announces the long-awaited acquisition of Vladimir Nabokov's Swiss archive, after three years of preparatory work and colossal logistics. The archive amounts to as many as 300 boxes of documents, manuscripts and texts. To be
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Guidoccio di Giovanni Cozzarelli (1450-1517). The Baptism of Christ. John the Baptist sports an epic hair shirt. Now on show at the Pushkin Museum, at the exhibition of proto-Renaissance masterpieces. The canvas comes from the collection of the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts. “Siena at the Dawn
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Titian, Allegory of Prudence. The painting is usually read as a depiction of the three ages of man and the three tenses: past, present and future, a sign that prudence is acquired with the years. But who, in that case, are the dog, the lion and the wolf in this
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Here and there in Moscow, retro-style address plates have begun to appear on buildings. Take, for example, the sign on the Helikon-Opera building, modelled on a Soviet street sign. It looks very pleasing
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On 30 July 1914 general mobilisation was declared in Russia, following Austria-Hungary's declaration of war on Serbia a few days earlier. On 1 August Germany declared war on Russia
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Stalin in the Kremlin in August 1941, when he learned of the German advance on Kyiv. The photograph was taken by Boris Burkov, editor-in-chief of Komsomolskaya Pravda, and preserved in defiance of an order to destroy the frame as showing the leader in an unflattering light. It is
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Alexandr Lukashev, Director of the Institute of Parasitology, in a lengthy interview with Kommersant, spoke about the differences in laboratory practice involving animals between Russia and European countries, about what the life of a mouse is worth to a scientist, and about the ethics of animal research in general. The
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Eeckhout's “Musical Party” under flies, the blistered “David and Abigail” of van Diepenbeeck, a hole in Bialynitsky-Birulya's canvas and other sad facts about the collection of the Moscow sanatorium Uzkoye, in the Bitsa Forest, are described in a caustic article in Komsomolskaya Pravda, which for
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Institute of Archaeology of the Russian Academy of Sciences on the inscription of the Karelian petroglyphs on the UNESCO list:. For the first time, monuments of Russian rock art have been inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List: at the extended 44th session of the World Heritage Committee, which is
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It turns out that this luxurious pavilion of Moscow's Arbatskaya metro station, by the architects Polozkov and Zenkevich, still exists; it is merely closed to the gaze of outsiders, standing hemmed in by the General Staff building. Photograph of 1953
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Today is a very important day for Russian archaeology, historical science and culture: at long last the petroglyphs of Karelia, thousands of Neolithic rock carvings on the shores of the White Sea and Lake Onega, have been recognised as a UNESCO World Heritage site, among the most astonishing in the