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Sokurov's five-hour film to be shown at the Venice Festival

Sokurov's five-hour film is to be shown at the Venice Festival. The chief question is whether anyone apart from Alexander Nikolayevich himself will manage to sit through the picture to the end. The documentary work by the director Alexander Sokurov, entitled “The Director's Diary”, will

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Astrological Types by the Artist Olga Gromova

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The Shortest Lecture on the History of Art

Science · Nature

Scientists discover a companion to Betelgeuse, one of the brightest red supergiants in the constellation of Orion

Scientists have discovered a companion to Betelgeuse, one of the brightest red supergiants in the constellation of Orion. For stars of this kind, having a companion at all is a great rarity. The companion is a bluish-white star, roughly 1.5 times more massive than the Sun. It orbits

Archive · Moscow · Observations

Timofey Melnik and a panoramic photograph of pilots, Heroes of the Soviet Union, at the 1945 Victory Parade

A most interesting photograph from the 1945 Victory Parade. Heroes of the Soviet Union, airmen who took part in the parade. Timofey Melnik took this picture by chance. He simply saw a group of airmen and asked them to stop, but the large group of pilots would not fit into

Archive · Architecture · Moscow · Museums · People

Notice to Vyacheslav Oltarzhevsky, architect of the Hotel Ukraina, that his case has been closed for lack of any corpus delicti: in this same case he had been sentenced to 15 years in the camps

A document from the new exhibition at the Museum of Architecture

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Confess: you can't tell Keira Knightley from Natalie Portman either, can you?

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Not That I Wanted It Anyway

Tall vertical painting in a wooden frame: two long black bands on a blue ground, the right one bending diagonally at its middle.

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Abstract composition: black vertical bands on a blue ground

Architecture · Moscow · Heritage · Society

Dukhovskoy apartment house of 1904 demolished in Moscow's Bolshoy Levshinsky Lane

Some buildings are entered on the protected lists, while others are quietly demolished, the features of old Moscow being ever more thoroughly wiped from the face of the city. Over the past weekend the Dukhovsky apartment house at 19 Bolshoy Levshinsky Lane was razed to the ground. The house, built

A long pale yellow three-storey building with stucco window surrounds and an arched gateway with wrought-iron doors on the right. Clear blue sky above; a number 10 plate on the wall.

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Three-storey building with stucco façade decoration on a city street