Faith · Ethnography · Humour
In principle, anyone at all might hatch from such an egg. The Slavs, for instance, had a deity of sorts: a house spirit and enricher that served people entangled with sorcery and brought them riches taken from other people. It was called the shkryatok, the khovanets or the rarasek, it
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Coming Up · Art · Moscow · Museums · Observations
At Garage, Natalia Turnova's Egg and Stone have been installed, and they can be viewed for free, since they are displayed in the museum foyer. The idols will last until 22 August and will most likely be destroyed, which is a pity, as I would gladly have installed
Faith · Books
And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy. And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard,
Faith · Books
And there appeared a great wonder in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun; under her feet the moon, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars. She was with child, and cried out in the pangs and torments of birth. And there appeared another wonder in heaven: behold,
Faith · The East · Books
The sixth Angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God, saying to the sixth Angel which had the trumpet: Loose the four Angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates. And the four Angels were loosed, which were
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And I saw another mighty Angel come down from heaven, clothed with a cloud: and a rainbow was upon his head, and his face was as it were the sun, and his feet as pillars of fire, and he had in his hand a little book open. And he set
Coming Up · Art · Moscow · Museums · Observations
The Standard-Bearer, The Monstrous Sow, Christ Taking Leave of His Mother, The Virgin with the Pear, Saint Jerome in His Study. The exhibition of Dürer's engravings at the State Historical Museum makes a very powerful impression. And, incidentally, unlike many critics, I have no quarrel with the
Archive · Books · Society · People
After the Gulag he wrote the novel "The Monkey Comes for Its Skull" (1959), the collection of novellas "The Dark Lady. Three Novellas about Shakespeare" (1969), his finest poems, and, finally, the largely autobiographical novels "The Keeper of Antiquities" (1964) and its sequel, "
Cinema · People · Humour
Werner Herzog and the ship which he (or rather 700 Indians) hauled over a mountain during the filming of Fitzcarraldo, 1982. If you have not yet seen this epic film about the madcap attempt of a fanatical music-lover to build an opera house in the heart of the Peruvian
Art · Museums
A witty dialogue between painters, or an amusing family tradition? The first image is a work of 1688 by the French Baroque painter Hyacinthe Rigaud, showing the 21-year-old Jean-Baptiste Mongino, whose biography will tell us little, with an oval portrait of his young wife. The next canvas,
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