Museums · Society · Paris

The Louvre to raise ticket prices for visitors from outside the EU from 14 January

The Louvre will raise ticket prices for most visitors from outside the EU. Tourists from the USA, the United Kingdom and China, for example, will have to pay €32. The increase will come into effect on 14 January. This step is expected to increase annual revenue by €15–20 million.

Three wood-framed drawings hang on a white wall, each showing an empty room with a door and window: yellow, green and pink walls, grey-brown floors.

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Three framed drawings of empty rooms with coloured walls on a gallery wall

Art · Moscow · Observations · Reportage · Humour

The Oberton graphic art fair takes place in a former turntable depot behind Leningradsky Station

Buy! Buy! Buy! I have come to a new contemporary art fair, yes, yet another in this year of squandered budgets. It is called Obertone, and it is devoted exclusively to graphic art. It is held in an industrial zone behind Leningradsky Station. The taxi driver was most curious as

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Hard to say whether 2025 did Brienne of Tarth any good or not?

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Tolkien's own illustrations for "Letters from Father Christmas", the series of letters he wrote to his children every year

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Mikhail Nesterov's "Tsarevna": a masterly embodiment of the Russian winter and a lament for a beloved wife

Mikhail Nesterov's "Tsarevna" is a masterly embodiment of the Russian winter and a lament for a beloved wife. Nesterov painted this picture in memory of his late wife, giving his heroine the eyes and the expression of the woman he loved. That is why the tsarevna

Architecture · Faith · Art · Heritage · Rome

The church of Santa Bibiana by Rome's Termini station and its Bernini sculpture

The very ancient church of Santa Bibiana is now almost built into the Roma Termini railway station, and in fact is barely visible behind the station's buildings. Inside the church, in the main altar, lie the relics of the saint. Besides such holy objects as the column at

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Repost this, so that all may go well for the little fellow

Makovsky's painting of 1872 is called "Secretly from His Wife"

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We Were Instructed to Draw Up an Updated Five-Year Programme for the Development of Museums, and We Have Prepared It

Mikhail Piotrovsky has summed up the work of the Union of Museums of Russia. The occasion: the Union of Museums has presented a strategy for the development of the sector over the next five years. Among its proposals are the legislative definition of the terms "museum" and "

Archive · Books · Moscow · Observations · Education

Does the Young Maiden Tremble, or the Young Wench Shake?

Mikhail Alexandrovich Dmitriev, an old Russian writer of the Slavophile circle, now almost forgotten, recalls the Church Slavonic classes of his university years in this way. Professor of Slavonic philology Matvey Gavrilov proposed that, wherever possible, Russian words in speech be exchanged for Slavonic ones, and the result was handsome:

Sepia photograph of a young man in boots seated on wooden porch steps, four women above him, two dogs lying on the steps and the ground, and a bicycle at right.

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Sergei Rachmaninoff with four women on the steps of the Krasnenkoye estate in 1899

Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff with ladies on the steps of the manor house at the Krasnenkoye estate, Voronezh Governorate, in 1899. Posing with Rachmaninoff are two charming dogs, together with Natalya Alexandrovna Satina, Yelena Yulyevna Kreutzer, Natalia Nikolayevna Lanting and Madame Mayevskaya.

Faith · Observations · Society

Watching the recent meeting of Pope Leo and Patriarch Bartholomew, I can say that I would, of course, support the union of all Christian confessions, provided that Rome returned to its pre-schism teachings and role, and turned once more to the faith…

Such a union is possible only if all branches of the church are brought into conformity with Orthodoxy, which alone, by the criteria of historical and liturgical continuity, corresponds to the image of the Christian Church under the Apostles. This is confirmed by its unbroken succession, by its very structure,

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