L. P. Orlova, back at the Mossovet Theatre after yet another successful plastic surgery operation

L. P. Orlova, back at the Mossovet Theatre after yet another successful plastic surgery operation, discovers in the programme for the production of "The Strange Mrs Savage" the name of V. P. Maretskaya set against her own role of Mrs Savage, 15 February 1973.

Dissatisfied with V. P. Maretskaya's performance, L. P. Orlova ostentatiously leaves the auditorium of the Mossovet Theatre in the middle of the production of "The Strange Mrs Savage", 15 February 1973.

V. P. Maretskaya calmly and with composure takes her leave of L. P. Orlova at her coffin, set up on the funeral stage of the Mossovet Theatre, February 1975.

Vladislav Mamyshev-Monroe

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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

L. P. Orlova, back at the Mossovet Theatre after yet another successful plastic surgery operation

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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