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# A Brief Review of the Key Publications of the Last Two Weeks of February
- URL: https://theparnassian.com/en/kratkii-obzor-kliuchevykh-publikatsii-za-poslednie-dve-nedeli-fevralia/
- Published: 2025-03-01T19:24:39.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-01T05:30:58.000Z
- Author: Alexandr Radayev
- Tags: Architecture, Art, Moscow, Museums, Heritage, Paris

A brief review of the key publications of the last two weeks of February. We have spoken about new exhibitions, unique museum collections and the repatriation of art, and touched on pressing questions of the Russian art market and of architectural heritage.

📌 The Fersman Mineralogical Museum in Moscow and the Galerie de Minéralogie in Paris: two museums with a rich history that are [strikingly alike](https://theparnassian.com/da-moi-liubimyi-muzei-v-moskve-po-prezhnemu-mineralogicheskii-muzei-imeni-fersmana-v-neskuchnom-sadu/?ref=theparnassian.com)

📌 A retrospective of Russian art from the 1960s to the present day. The exhibition [“This Is the Best We Have”](https://theparnassian.com/moskovskii-muzei-sovremennogo-iskusstva-sovmestno-s-gazetoi-the-art-newspaper-russia-predstavili-proekt-eto-luchshee-chto-u-nas-est/?ref=theparnassian.com) at the Moscow Museum of Modern Art (MMOMA)

📌 A Kate Bush video inspired by the strange [story](https://theparnassian.com/keit-bush-sniataia-gollandskim-fotografom-klodom-vankheie-na-parkovke-v-amsterdame-v-1979-godu/?ref=theparnassian.com) of the psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich

📌 Orthopaedic footwear of the eighteenth century, and how [definitely not](https://theparnassian.com/bashmaki-khromogo-diavola-i-lui-filipp-podderzhivaiushchii-edva-stoiashchego-na-nogakh-taleirana/?ref=theparnassian.com) to punish children

📌 What Virginia Woolf's friendship [was worth](https://theparnassian.com/tomas-eliott-i-virdzhiniia-vulf-druzhili-bolshe-20-let-no-kogda-eliott-prinial-khristianstvo-tochnee-posle-perioda-otkrytoi-antitserkovnoi-pozitsii-postepenno-stal-revnostnym-veruiushch/?ref=theparnassian.com)

📌 Is there life on Venus? Sergey Korostelev's book about the eminent astronomer [Leonid Ksanfomaliti](https://theparnassian.com/odna-iz-samykh-neobychnykh-rukopisei-predstavlennykh-na-ocherednoi-sezon-premii-gipertekst-proizvedenie-pisatelia-i-nauchnogo-zhurnalista-sergeia-korosteleva-zemlia-venera-dve-zhizni-le/?ref=theparnassian.com)

📌 Abramtsevo carving or Afghan? A graphic [example](https://theparnassian.com/vse-navernoe-znaiut-ili-khotia-by-raz-videli-v-muzee-abramtsevskuiu-rezbu-i-vypolnennye-v-ee-tekhnikakh-predmety-byta-mebel/?ref=theparnassian.com) of how the folk motifs of the visual arts of different countries share common aesthetic features

📌 The Constantinopolitan church of Hagia Sophia prepares for [large-scale restoration](https://theparnassian.com/konstantinopolskii-khram-sviatoi-sofii-nyne-glavnaia-stambulskaia-mechet-aiia-sofiia-perestavshaia-byt-muzeem-v-2020-godu-podvergnetsia-restavratsii/?ref=theparnassian.com)

📌 The [minutes](https://theparnassian.com/rossiiskaia-akademiia-arkhitektury-i-stroitelnykh-nauk-raasn-opublikovala-protokol-zasedaniia-akademicheskogo-soveta-posviashchennogo-sokhraneniiu-obektov-sovetskogo-modernizma-1960-198/?ref=theparnassian.com) of the meeting of the Academic Council of the Russian Academy of Architecture and Construction Sciences (RAASN), devoted to the preservation of Soviet modernist buildings of the 1960s to 1980s, have been published

📌 The exhibition [“The Dark Thaw”](https://theparnassian.com/ottepel-kak-odna-iz-vazhneishikh-vekh-nashei-kultury-v-xx-veke-imela-i-svoi-tenevye-storony-chto-i-stalo-kanvoi-vystavki-temnaia-ottepel-v-tsentre-voznesenskogo/?ref=theparnassian.com) at the Voznesensky Centre. On the unknown art of the Thaw era.