Observations · Society · Humour

The number of people who congratulated me on Culture Worker's Day equals the number of people whom I congratulated on the occasion

The number of people who congratulated me on Culture Worker's Day equals the number of people whom I congratulated on the occasion. But this identity is easily altered. I congratulate all my colleagues, the workers of this most vital sphere, whose efforts and talents, alas, too often remain

Black-and-white photograph in a black frame on a wall: a polo shirt made of contrasting black, white and grey geometric pieces, with textured sleeves and collar.

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Framed black-and-white photograph of a polo shirt in geometric colour blocks

Art · Moscow · Museums · Observations

The exhibition “Choosing Distance” on the Coronacene era opens at Garage

A new exhibition has opened at Garage that you want to go on looking at, and looking at. It is called “Choosing the Distance: Speculations, Fakes, Forecasts in the Era of the Coronacene”. It is hard to single out one exhibit or one artist, for literally everything impresses. We shall

Hundreds of monochrome figurines stand on a concrete floor: lions, dinosaurs, a crocodile, a sheep, a kangaroo, a snake. A white octopus lies in the foreground; translucent fabric hangs abov

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Many pale green toy animal figures arranged on the floor of an exhibition space

Education · Society

Government orders 5 billion roubles to be allocated in 2021 for modernising the infrastructure of higher education institutions, including major repairs to buildings and anti-terrorist protection

Moscow State University is to receive 165 million, Saint Petersburg State University 278.5 million, RANEPA 380 million, the Glazunov Academy 100 million, universities under the Ministry of Science and Higher Education 1.2 billion, those under the Ministry of Health 867 million, those under the Ministry of Agriculture 666

Archaeology · Science · Ethnography

Theories of the origin of the Karakachans and the view of Aris Poulianos

Many of the Greek shepherds belong to the once numerous Karakachan or Sarakatsani people, settled from Epirus and the Peloponnese to North Macedonia, Serbia, Bulgaria and Romania. There are several versions of the origin of the Sarakatsani. Their history is traced back to the Middle Ages and linked with a

Geography · Nature · Ethnography

The last Greek shepherds and the end of cross-border transhumance in the 20th century

Greek shepherds are a most interesting and, in our day, extremely small group, preserving age-old traditions of transhumant pastoralism and the way of life that goes with them. Barely a century ago, thousands of shepherds would calmly cross mountain valleys many kilometres wide to reach their ancestral pastures, scattered

NB! · Archive · Ethnography

A Romanian Shepherd, a Colourised Photograph of the Late 1930s

A man in a dark cloak and pale kilt with a staff and a boy in a hood stand on a rocky summit against a backdrop of mountain ridges.

NB! · Archive · Geography · Ethnography

A colourised 1903 photograph shows a Greek shepherd and his son on Mount Parnassus

A Greek shepherd and his son on Mount Parnassus. Colourised photograph, 1903

Archive · Cinema · Monarchies · Observations · People

Mary of Teck, widow of King George V, died just 10 weeks before the coronation of her granddaughter Elizabeth

Mary of Teck, widow of King George V, died just 10 weeks before the coronation of her granddaughter Elizabeth. On her deathbed she insisted that the coronation not be postponed on account of mourning for her. But Elizabeth's accession itself had taken place in Queen Mary's

A fair-haired woman in a long robe sits at a small table on a tall chair. A second face looks out from the chair back, and thin threads and branches wind through the green-blue room.

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Surrealist painting of a woman at a small table with a face in the chair back

NB! · Art · People

Alexandr Radayev