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In one interview I was asked about my attitude to dress codes. In truth, mine is simple: irrespective of the whims of event organisers, I wear whatever I consider appropriate and whatever I happen to have to hand. Remember how Anna Wintour dressed for the recent Met Gala? In a
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Elderly Charlie Chaplin and his wife Oona, 35 years his junior. With a little dog
Archive · People · Pop Culture · Humour
In the 1980s Margaret Thatcher appeared on a Saturday-morning music show, plainly trying to get in touch with youth culture. She listened to a performance by a contemporary band and said they had “a good beat”. True, nobody has heard of that band since
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Art · Museums · Observations
In 1984 experts questioned the attribution of Rembrandt's Man in a Golden Helmet in the collection of the Berlin Art Gallery. Is it too much like Rembrandt to be Rembrandt? The work had been ascribed to Rembrandt for many years, until a special Dutch commission for establishing the
Books · People · Saint Petersburg
Listen to the dream of night, do not miss the falling star… along my streets, an Invisible Shade, I shall walk behind you… Look (I pine so in the desert far from beloved places…): is the water in the Neva still blue? Has the cross not yet been taken from
Faith · Books · Museums · Paris
Behold the monstrance, like a golden sun, Hung in the air: a magnificent moment. Here only the Greek language should be heard: A whole world is taken into the hands, like a simple apple. The solemn zenith of the divine service, Light in the round chamber beneath the dome in
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Maria Filippovna Limanskaya, made famous worldwide by Yevgeny Khaldei's photograph "The Brandenburg Madonna", turns 100 this year. The image of Maria Limanskaya has become one of the most recognisable symbols of Victory. In the war Maria Limanskaya was a traffic controller and travelled all the roads
Architecture · Moscow · Observations · Society
Opposite the mostly infamous House on the Embankment stand two signs reading "The house where ... lived". One wonders by what principle, out of several dozen outstanding and quite well-known names, it was Academician Shirshov and Mikoyan who were chosen. After all, besides them the house was home
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Dreadful street art on Lev Tolstoy Street. Own up: whose work is it?
Coming Up · Moscow
The Traditional Friday Round-Up of Concerts and Theatre Events in Moscow for the Coming Days. 11 May at 19:00 📌Anton Bruckner's Mass No. 3 in F minor, performed by a mixed choir and orchestra under the direction of Philipp Chizhevsky at the Novaya Opera Theatre in