For another 12 days the Voznesensky Centre is showing a small but richly packed exhibition, "The Museum of Spiritual Avant-Garde", devoted to the spiritual and worldly experience of the Christian intelligentsia in the 1930s to 1950s, a time that seemed to

For another 12 days the Voznesensky Centre is showing a small but richly packed exhibition, "The Museum of Spiritual Avant-Garde", devoted to the spiritual and worldly experience of the Christian intelligentsia in the 1930s to 1950s, a time that seemed to many without exit and without hope. The exhibition's materials tell of the lives of the epoch's chief spiritual beacons, of the saving power of culture, and of the inner world of people who bore on their fragile shoulders the weight of an entire universe. The chronology of the exhibition is circular, and its thematic sections are devoted not only to painting but also to the art of book design, to texts and to music. The exhibition is complemented by lectures on the era it presents

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At the close of the Strugatskys' "Roadside Picnic" the Golden Sphere is asked for this: "Happiness for everybody, free, and let nobody go away unsatisfied!" I do not promise to leave no one aggrieved, but the digest really does come free

At the close of the Strugatskys' "Roadside Picnic" the Golden Sphere is asked for this: "Happiness for everybody, free, and let nobody go away unsatisfied!" I do not promise to leave no one aggrieved, but the digest really does come free. So, here is the

Frederic Leighton

Frederic Leighton. “Daedalus and Icarus”, 1869 Daedalus warns his son not to climb too high: the heat of the sun may melt the wax, but Icarus is already gazing into the distance, and the lamentations of a foolish old man interest him not in the least

For another 12 days the Voznesensky Centre is showing a small but richly packed exhibition, "The Museum of Spiritual Avant-Garde", devoted to the spiritual and worldly experience of the Christian intelligentsia in the 1930s to 1950s, a time that seemed to

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At the close of the Strugatskys' "Roadside Picnic" the Golden Sphere is asked for this: "Happiness for everybody, free, and let nobody go away unsatisfied!" I do not promise to leave no one aggrieved, but the digest really does come free

Frederic Leighton

Attempts to resolve the problems of many years of uncontrolled mass migration

Characters from Gogol's "Petersburg Tales" on the pedestal of the monument to Nikolai Gogol on Nikitsky Boulevard, photograph of the 1960s