Elephant-shaped house beside the road from Moscow to Chekhov is offered for rent

Anyone who has ever driven from Moscow to Chekhov cannot have failed to notice, to the right of the highway, a house in the shape of an elephant. Thanks to Avito I learned that this striking piece of real estate is available to rent, and at a very reasonable price at that, and I was lucky enough to get a look inside: the interior is entirely in keeping with the exterior. Contemporary Russian architecture can be like this too

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September digest: archaeological finds, exhibitions, museums, theatre and the Church

In the finale of the Strugatskys' Roadside Picnic, the Golden Ball is told: "Happiness for everybody, free, and let nobody go away unsatisfied!" I do not promise to offend nobody, but the digest really does come free of charge. So, here is the main business of 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

Elephant-shaped house beside the road from Moscow to Chekhov is offered for rent

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September digest: archaeological finds, exhibitions, museums, theatre and the Church

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