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In October 1944 the head of the Ancient East department of the Pushkin Museum submitted an official memorandum to the museum's director about a business trip to the town of Sukhoy Log in the Sverdlovsk region
In October 1944 the head of the Ancient East department of the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts submitted an official memorandum to the museum's director about a business trip to the town of Sukhoy Log in the Sverdlovsk region. Vsevolod Pavlov, a specialist in Ancient Egypt who had
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That was a funny idea of yours
Books · Observations · Science
"It Was Forever Until It Was No More"
There was such a good book, if you remember, by the Russian and American anthropologist Alexei Yurchak
NB! · Books · Observations · Humour
In Case You Didn't Know, Larisa Ogudalova Invented Cringe
In case you didn't know, Larisa Ogudalova invented cringe. Or rather, Alexander Nikolayevich Ostrovsky did.
Cinema · Observations · Society
You may express your opinion, provided it is the right sort of opinion; otherwise it will not be taken into account
What a disgrace. Not content with cinemas openly infringing copyright and charging admission for stolen films, we now have online platforms deciding for themselves how film output is to be rated. - We are here -
NB! · Moscow · Education · Society
Chief Accountant of the University Appointed Acting Rector of GITIS
The East · Art · Books · Mores · Ethnography
Iranian Women of the Qajar Era in Japanese Woodcuts from the Book by the Engineer and Topographer Naoyuki Furukawa, Describing Japan's First Diplomatic Contact with Iran in 1880 and 1881
Iranian women of the Qajar era in Japanese woodcuts from the book by the engineer and topographer Naoyuki Furukawa, describing Japan's first diplomatic contact with Iran in 1880 and 1881. The mission was carried out under the leadership of Yoshida Masaharu. Besides recounting the incidents of the journey,
Archive · Books · Mores · People · Saint Petersburg
Alexander Kuprin at a Feast in a Pushkin House Negative and His Taste for Food
In a photograph of the 1910s taken in Saint Petersburg by the master of reportage Iosif Otsup, Alexandr Kuprin sits second from the left at a laid table. The archivists of Pushkin House have provisionally titled this negative a novelist's feast in the company of friends. The identities
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Soldier in a tunic standing by a lectern with busts and banners
Science · Society
How the Soviet Electoral System Changed from Open Voting to the 1989 Elections
Until 1936, Soviet citizens directly elected only the representatives of local town and village soviets, which in turn sent delegates to the higher congresses, all the way up to the Central Executive Committee of the USSR. In the 1920s voting was open and conducted by a show of hands. The