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KuKryNiksy: the artists Mikhail Kupriyanov, Porfiry Krylov and Nikolay Sokolov
Photograph by Dmitry Baltermants, 1960s
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Central Market on Tsvetnoy Boulevard in Moscow from wooden stalls to demolition
A Muscovite Woman Choosing a Birch Broom at the Central Market in 1958. The Central Moscow Market stood at 15 Tsvetnoy Boulevard and at that time still operated out of wooden pavilions, before the construction of the city's first permanent covered market building. The multi-storey market was
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The table at which Verochka Mamontova sat for Valentin Serov's painting "Girl with Peaches" has survived and stands in the main manor house of the Abramtsevo Museum-Reserve
Archive · Museums · Heritage · Paris
In August 1939, Jacques Jaujard, Director of the French National Museums, carried out the largest and most secret operation to save the world's art
In August 1939, Jacques Jaujard, Director of the French National Museums, carried out the largest and most secret operation to save the world's art. A few days before the outbreak of the Second World War, the Louvre was suddenly closed to the public on the pretext of routine
Archive · Science · People · Nature · Saint Petersburg
Dogs in Pavlov's laboratories and the 1935 monument to a nameless dog
The physiologist Ivan Pavlov with his colleagues and students of the Military Medical Academy before a demonstration of experiments on the transmission of conditioned reflexes. Professor Georgy Konradi recalled that Ivan Petrovich had quite literally grown into one with the dog as an object of study, and that when demonstrating
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Interior of the Ceremonial Hall of the Academy of Arts Library in Saint Petersburg, 1900s
The ceremonial hall of the Academy of Arts library. Saint Petersburg, 1900s
Coming Up · Art · Moscow · Museums
“Flowers. Symbol of Beauty” at the Tretyakov Gallery on Kadashevskaya Embankment until 18 October
At the Tretyakov Gallery on Kadashevskaya Embankment, a touching exhibition, "Flowers. A Symbol of Beauty", is running without much fuss, devoted entirely to the presence of flowers in Russian art. It opens with Kramskoy's "Bouquet of Flowers. Phloxes" of 1884, the only pure flower
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Brazilian artist Luis Filipe conceived a chair art object in 2004
Chair with Crossed Legs. An art object by the Brazilian artist and designer Luis Filipe, conceived in 2004
Archive · Architecture · Heritage · Saint Petersburg
Oranienbaum escaped occupation and its palaces survived, unlike Peterhof and Gatchina
The Hall of the Muses in the Chinese Palace at Oranienbaum in 1947. Oranienbaum was the only one of the suburban residences of Saint Petersburg that did not fall under occupation during the Great Patriotic War. The Germans were stopped on the approaches to the town in September 1941, and
Observations · Science · Society · Nature
Kazakhstan Is Restoring the Tiger Population Lost at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century
I have already told in detail how the last Turan tiger of the Great Steppe was killed by hunters in the last century. In 2025 I wrote that the actual release of tigers into the wild of Kazakhstan was still a long way off, and now it has come to
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Boremir Bakharev created a mooring pile with a Corinthian capital for the “Waterfront/Водная линия” competition
Art object "Mooring Post with a Metal Capital of the Corinthian Order", made from an old metal pipe with the addition of a Corinthian capital by the artist Boremir Bakharev in 2021 for the "Waterfront/Vodnaya liniya" competition. Saint Petersburg, waters of the River Smolenka
Art · Paris · Humour
Erik Bulatov painted “Paris. Kremlin” in 1992
The Best View in Paris Is, of Course, of the Kremlin. Erik Bulatov, “Paris. Kremlin”, 1992