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Alexandr Radayev
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QX magazine names Crown Princess Victoria Hetero Person of the Year for Stockholm Pride speech
Crown Princess Victoria, 43, Duchess of Västergötland and heir to the Swedish throne, has been named Straight Person of the Year by the Swedish monthly LGBTQ magazine QX-magazine. The award was given to Princess Victoria for her inspiring speech at last year's Stockholm Pride. In the photograph,
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A small white dog in a wicker pram in a 1980 painting by Jamie Wyeth
What a sweet little dog! She looks just like her mistress! Jamie Wyeth, 1980
NB! · Faith · Interviews · People · Rome
Pope Francis Has Said How He Would Like to Die
Pope Francis has said how he would like to die. Speaking of his health, past and present, Francis I answered the question “How do you imagine your death?”: “As Pope, either in office or as emeritus. And in Rome. I will not go back to Argentina.”
Monarchies · Science · Humour
At last genetics is being put to serious use (not), for instance to establish whether Richard III was a good king or a scoundrel, and to shed light on the origin of the hump with which Thomas More and William Shakespeare endow him: was that barely noticea
At last genetics is being put to serious use (not), for instance to establish whether Richard III was a good king or a scoundrel, and to shed light on the origin of the hump with which Thomas More and William Shakespeare endow him: was that barely noticeable scoliosis hereditary? Besides
Books · Paris
Victor Hugo on his birth in Besançon in Valery Bryusov's Russian translation
Victor Hugo's poem “Ce siècle avait deux ans! Rome remplaçait Sparte” is best known in Russian in the translation by Valery Bryusov, which begins with this stanza: Our century was two years old; Rome was replacing Sparta: Napoleon was already showing through Bonaparte, And the narrow mask that
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Do not tell me you have ever seen a more bewitchingly frail image of a writer in infancy than this engraving, "The Birth of Victor Hugo", of 1881, from the collections of the municipal library of Besançon, where the future classic of world…
Do not tell me you have ever seen a more bewitchingly frail image of a writer in infancy than this engraving, "The Birth of Victor Hugo", of 1881, from the collections of the municipal library of Besançon, where the future classic of world literature came into the world
NB! · Archive · Art · Moscow
Very young Yevgeny Korenev (played 1927-1952, dates of life unknown to me), Dmitry Kamernitsky (1897-1972) and Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko (1858-1943) in the roles of warriors
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Poster for the exhibition project Lessons of VKhUTEMAS, 26 February to 11 April
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Stanislavski House Museum opens “Lessons of VKHUTEMAS” exhibition with works by Ariadna Arendt
The Museum of the Moscow Art Theatre continues its parade of VKhUTEMAS exhibitions. At the Stanislavsky House-Museum in Leontyevsky Lane, "Lessons of VKhUTEMAS" opened today. The focus is on the work of VKhUTEMAS graduates Ariadna Arendt and her first and second husbands, Meer Aizenshtadt and Anatoly Grigoryev.
Coming Up · Art · Observations
The blazar fair announces an open call for artists and gallerists for September
The blazar young contemporary art fair, where we shopped so merrily last autumn, announces an open call for artists and gallerists for September. It is a genuinely good opportunity for emerging creators to make themselves known, meet the public, and find a gallery and an audience of their own. Details
Architecture · Moscow · Museums · Observations · Education
Exhibition on the VKhUTEMAS Architecture Faculty on View at the Shchusev Museum of Architecture
At the Shchusev Museum of Architecture, a long-awaited major exhibition devoted to the Architecture Faculty of VKhUTEMAS. Who, if not MUAR, should show the genuine masterpieces of the Vkhutemas students, and at last it has come to pass. Moreover, this project looks far more advantageous than the exhibition on