The East · Society · People · Humour
To Go to War Without France Is Like Going Hunting Without an Accordion
American General Norman Schwarzkopf, commander of the coalition forces during the Gulf War in 1991
Alexandr Radayev
Books · Ethnography
He drank his fill of misfortunes, and grew drunk on tears
Russian proverb
NB! · Archive · Architecture · Moscow
The Old Moskvoretsky Bridge and Zaryadye in 1898-99
Observations · Science · Society
The author proposes separating political ideologies from Hegel's Absolute Spirit
Perhaps this is merely the opinion of a man wearied by endless examinations in philosophy. But one would like, at long last, to demolish the noxious machinery of the Hegelian interpretation of history. Or at the very least to separate all existing political ideologies from his concept of the Absolute
NB! · Observations
I Was Very Fond of the World Before the 2020s
NB! · Art · People
Collages of women in peril by the German-Argentine photographer Grete Stern
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Street book stall beside a Soviet anti-vodka banner
NB! · Archive · Books · Mores
A Book Bazaar at the Cherepovets Market and on Sovetsky Prospekt in 1930
Art · Books
Those who have seen little good do not believe in it and must invent it, read it into things; those who have seen little evil likewise speak of it only by hearsay, and seldom at that, because we are interested only in what we know and have experienced our
Nikolai Pomyalovsky. Illustration: Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin, "At the Samovar", 1927
Aristocracy · Faith · Books
Sumarokov's paraphrase of Psalm 145 on princes and people equal before death
Put not your trust in princes: They are born of men, And all by nature in this world are equal in honour. The earth brings forth, the earth devours; Everyone born, being born, shall die, Rich and poor, despised and renowned. Then those flatteries shall vanish That were given to
Listings · Moscow · Coming Up · Art · Museums
A new selection of exhibitions in Moscow
📌 Closing soon: the Vladimir Nemukhin retrospective "Playing at Abstraction" at the New Tretyakov Gallery, until 15 March 📌 3 March: opening of the report exhibition by the art group PPSS at HSE ART GALLERY in the Winzavod Centre for Contemporary Art, until 7 April 📌 5 March: opening of the
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