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Deyneka's monumental panels shown at the Russian Museum for the first time in 50 years
The Russian Museum has shown Deineka's monumental panels for the first time in 50 years at the exhibition "Alexander Deineka. Singer of the New Life". The project is timed to coincide with the 125th anniversary of the eminent Soviet artist. The exhibition presents about 90 works
Archive · Geography · Nature
Riverbed without water and heaps of fragmented rock in a black-and-white photograph
In 1969 Niagara Falls Was Halted for Several Months, and What Had Lain Hidden Under Water for Thousands of Years Came to Light. Nothing supernatural, however: a riverbed and fragments of rock
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Archaeologist Manuel Esteve in a Corinthian helmet he discovered, 1938
The Spanish archaeologist Manuel Esteve poses in a Corinthian helmet he has discovered. 1938
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Pope Francis before his pontificate
Architecture · Moscow · Heritage · Society · Saint Petersburg
The Russian Academy of Architecture and Construction Sciences (RAACS) has published the minutes of a meeting of its Academic Council devoted to the preservation of Soviet modernist buildings of the 1960s to 1980s
The Russian Academy of Architecture and Construction Sciences (RAACS) has published the minutes of a meeting of its Academic Council devoted to the preservation of Soviet modernist buildings of the 1960s to 1980s. The decision to publish the minutes was taken on 12 February, in response to the lively debate
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When Constantinople Became Tsargrad
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When "Constantinople" Was Said Instead of "Istanbul"
Architecture · Faith · The East · Heritage
The Constantinopolitan Church of Hagia Sophia, now Istanbul's principal mosque of Ayasofya, which ceased to be a museum in 2020, is to undergo restoration
The roof of the church, which is inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List, will be dismantled. The specialists promise to employ methods and materials appropriate to the era of the Ottoman Empire. Since the ceiling of Hagia Sophia is adorned with priceless Byzantine mosaics (parts of which are covered)
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Plasticine kinetic composition of red, green and blue elements
Art · Moscow · Museums · Observations · Society Pages · Humour
A great many people at the opening of "Forward to Zlotnikov" at Ground Solyanka
Those who remember the exhibition "Zlotnikov. The Signal System" at the New Tretyakov Gallery will find that it differs from this one. At Ground Solyanka there is more painting, and there are sculptures that I, for one, am seeing for the first time, while documents and photographs are
The East · Art · Observations · Ethnography
Similarities between Abramtsevo carving and Afghan household objects of the early 20th century
Everyone probably knows, or has at least once seen in a museum, Abramtsevo carving and the household objects and furniture made in its techniques. The craft is sometimes called Abramtsevo-Kudrino carving, and it is connected above all with Abramtsevo, Polenovo and the name of the artist Elena Dmitrievna Polenova.