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Coming Up · Books · Saint Petersburg

From 4 to 6 September the Italian Garden will host "Book Garden", a festival marking the centenary of Podpisnye Izdaniya

The programme includes meetings with writers and researchers, lectures, concerts, a publishers' market, book-dating and a separate programme for children. Among the participants are Zhang Yueran, Marcello Simonetta, Angela Nanetti (online), Yevgeny Tsyganov and the band ME4TA, TERELYA, ARTEMIEV, Vladimir Lisovsky, Lev Lurie, Alyona Doletskaya, Vika Chuma, Marina

NB! · London · Monarchies · Observations · Humour

An Airport Is Proposed to Be Named After Queen Camilla

It is proposed to name an airport after Queen Camilla. I suggest we confine ourselves to the baggage reclaim hall

NB! · Archive · Faith · Ethnography

This is not what you might think, but a cross in a circle marking the great Christian feasts in the margins of an Old Believer manuscript menologion

Three works on a white wall: two signboards reading “A la Tête Noire”, a portrait of a turbaned man and an oval relief bust, plus a painting of a servant beside a set table.

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“À la Tête Noire” signboards and a tea-table scene in a museum gallery

Museums · Heritage · Society · Paris

Sign of a colonial goods shop on rue Mouffetard in Paris moved to the Carnavalet Museum

At the Jolly Negro. The historic sign of a colonial goods shop in Paris, at 14 rue Mouffetard. The white woman, incidentally, contrary to first impressions, is pouring a drink for the dark-skinned figure, and not the other way round. In the 2010s the sign began to suffer at

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An Example of Good Integration

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Boris Pasternak holds a portrait of Stalin together with its author, the artist Pavel Malkov, at the 1934 Congress of Soviet Writers

Igor Grabar, speaking on behalf of the artists attending the congress as guests, announced that the artists intended to present the congress with a portrait of Stalin. Boris Pasternak, a member of the congress presidium, who was sitting on the stage, took it upon himself to steady the portrait of

Archive · Books · Moscow · Education

Children at the writers' congress, among them Irkutsk pioneers invited by Gorky

Children at the First All-Union Congress of Soviet Writers, held from 17 August to 1 September 1934. A delegation of Pioneers addressed the Congress with a greeting. Among the various groups of participants were children brought to the Congress by Samuil Marshak, who delivered a report arguing that writing

Coming Up · Art · Moscow · Museums

The history of the colour black is the history of humanity's transformations: its fears, the mechanisms of power it has built, its spiritual quests and the aesthetic revolutions that continue to this day

The history of the colour black is the history of humanity's transformations: its fears, the mechanisms of power it has built, its spiritual quests and the aesthetic revolutions that continue to this day. The project "The History of Black" at the Ekaterina Cultural Foundation, curated by

Archive · Books · Moscow · People

Three arrests of Anastasia Tsvetaeva, the camps, exile and her return to Moscow in 1961

At the Home of the Writer Anastasia Tsvetaeva, November 1987. Photo by Yury Rybchinsky Anastasia, the younger sister of Marina Tsvetaeva, also travelled a far from easy road. Her first husband, the chemical engineer Mauritius Mints, died of peritonitis only two years after the wedding, in the Crimea, at the

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Burial place of Marina Tsvetaeva in Yelabuga still not established 85 years on

On 31 August 1941, in evacuation at Yelabuga, Marina Tsvetaeva took her own life. That day her son Mur and the mistress of the house were sent off to clear a site for an airfield; she was left alone and hanged herself in the entrance passage. In the kitchen a

Archive · Architecture · Faith · Art

Christ Pantocrator in the Church of St John the Baptist in Tolchkovo, Yaroslavl

Christ Pantocrator in the Church of St John the Baptist in Tolchkovo, Yaroslavl. Frescoes of the 1690s by the artel of Dmitry Plekhanov and Fyodor Ignatyev Photograph of the 1940s

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