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Cinema · People · Pop Culture
Yura Borisov Invited to Join the American Film Academy. Borisov is on a list of 534 performers and film industry professionals who have been invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences of the USA, the organisation that awards the Oscars each year. The list includes recent
NB! · Society · Paris · Humour
Faith · Art · Moscow · Museums · Heritage
In the fifteenth century the icon stood in the iconostasis of the Trinity Cathedral of the Lavra, founded by St Sergius of Radonezh. After the Revolution it was removed from the monastery, and in 1929, after nine years spent in the museum at Zagorsk, it was transferred to the Tretyakov
Books · Mores · Society
"That little dog was my only comfort. Carlo slept with me, and in the daytime never left my side for a step, and what clever eyes he had, as though he understood everything. Well, the other day I gathered some scraps by the kitchen and was feeding him, and
Art · Moscow · Museums · Saint Petersburg
The subject is a Russian peasant whom the invaders meant to conscript into Napoleon's army, and whose hand they branded with the letter N; whereupon, before the astonished eyes of the intruders, he hacked off his branded hand. The Roman Scaevola, that is to say the Left-Handed,
Architecture · Moscow · Heritage · Society
Grachev Dacha Demolished on Sparrow Hills in Moscow: the Last Surviving Wooden House in the District. The building at 18 Kosygin Street had been on the list of newly identified monuments since 2005. In March 2025 Mosgornasledie (the Moscow heritage authority) declined to enter it in the register of cultural
Architecture · Faith · Art · Moscow · Museums
The painting "Footballer" by Alexander Deineka, which can be seen at the artist's exhibition at the Tretyakov Gallery on Kadashevskaya, depicts the bell tower of the Church of John the Baptist in Yaroslavl, the very one that appears on the 1,000-rouble banknote. The 45-
NB! · Moscow · Observations
A floating drilling rig on a pontoon raft on the Vodootvodny Canal, on the Bolotnaya Embankment side, between the Patriarshy Bridge (closed) and the Maly Kamenny Bridge. What are they drilling for? I have grown curious.
Architecture · Faith · Heritage · Paris
The first statue to be placed on the spire was that of Saint Thomas, and it is in many ways a symbolic choice. Saint Thomas is regarded as the patron saint of architects. The composition consists of figures of the 12 apostles and four symbolic figures of the evangelists: an
Architecture · Art · Moscow · Museums · Heritage
In the sculpture courtyard of the A.V. Shchusev Museum of Architecture, the open restoration of the memorial monument with the bust of Catherine II, created by the sculptor Vasily Ivanovich Demut-Malinovsky in 1834, has come to an end. The monument is an allegorical sculptural group on a single
Coming Up · Moscow · Pop Culture · Reportage
Today at the Moscow Variety Theatre the first chords sounded of one of the most anticipated premieres of this autumn: a press conference was held there to present the musical “Waltz-Boston”. There was as yet no orchestra and no full glare of the footlights, but there were sketches of