Architecture · Observations · Society
I know Varlamov wrote about this. Still, it is a handsome idea, if a rather ambiguous one. The administration of Rybinsk, in the Yaroslavl Region, has ordered that signboards in the historic part of the town be made in a "historical" style, and plastic is apparently banned as
Almaty · Art · Cinema · Observations · People
There is a film called “Sergei Kalmykov: A Man Visible from the Stars”. It is about an incredible Soviet artist and mystic who lived in Alma-Ata. Kalmykov moved to Kazakhstan in the late 1930s, when storm clouds began to gather over the circle of mystics, and in Alma-Ata
Aristocracy · Architecture · Humour
The Colleoni family coat of arms is adorned with three pairs of testicles. The family is said to owe its emblem to one of its founders, Gisalberto Colleoni, who had a distinctive physiological peculiarity, a third testicle, which may have been the result of an orchitis he had suffered. Indeed,
Observations · Society · Paris · Humour
Paris, oh, Paris! Faugh, what a backwater! My eyes are simply popping out of my head at the "improvements" in the La Chapelle quarter. What is that supposed to be called? Inclusivity with solar panels and flowers? In principle, it is hard to say who has done Europe
Architecture · Heritage · Society
Buzuluk wooden Art Nouveau: yes, such a thing exists. The people of Tom Sawyer Fest in the town of Buzuluk are preserving unique monuments of the wooden architecture of their region, and they need our help. Read the post (https://www.instagram.com/p/CDi6i7FjI-J/?igshid=150ddi3chlg2z); perhaps you
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Faith · Heritage · Ethnography
Darkened with age, brought back from the Crusades, they belong to a tradition of black female deities more than 4,000 years old in Mesopotamia, Egypt and Asia Minor. In general, no single theory exists to explain how the iconography of the dark-skinned Madonna and Child spread across Europe.
Art · Books · Museums · Rome
Pliny the Elder waxes enthusiastic about a dog licking its wound in the temple of Juno on the Capitol:. "This art attained a perfection incredible in a man, and with it a boldness to match. … Our generation saw on the Capitol, before it burned down so recently, … a dog
Archive · Books · People
"Innocent Speeches", "Peasant Women", "Dreams", "The Wife", "Three Sisters": these and other editions of Chekhov published in his lifetime have been made freely available by the National Electronic Library in honour of Anton Pavlovich's 160th birthday, as part
Architecture · Observations · Heritage · Society · Saint Petersburg
Quite recently I wanted to write about the creation in the Leningrad Region of a "Park Agency", which will oversee the preservation of cultural monuments, their use, and the promotion of heritage sites. Among the monuments coming under the agency's care are the Priory Park and
Architecture · Moscow · Museums · Observations · Heritage
Melnikov's best-known work is his own house on Krivoarbatsky Lane, two cylinders of unequal size, built in 1927-29 for himself and his family. Unrepeatable and striking in its simplicity, its form and its handling of light, it stands today in good condition and houses an excellent
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