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Ceramic Wall Calendar for 1887 in the Chekhov House Museum
A ceramic wall calendar for 1887 in the form of a rectangular dish. The Chekhov House Museum. The first I have ever seen
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Archaeology · Architecture · Faith · Heritage
One of History's More Original Riddles: Whose Relics Lie in the Tomb Beneath the Altar of St Mark's Basilica in Venice?
The relics stolen by the Venetians from Alexandria in the ninth century belong, according to the principal version, to Saint Mark, yet there is a stubborn legend that in place of the Evangelist's remains the thieves carried home those of Alexander the Great.
Art · Moscow · Society Pages
Artem Lyapin's exhibition of lace fairy-tale characters opens at Lobby Moscow
A cosy exhibition, as is always the case at Lobby Moscow, has opened: the work of Artem Lyapin, an artist of the Flor et Lavr gallery. The show is called “I Think This Love Will Last Forever”. Artem works with metal, textiles and painting, and uses such techniques as cyanotype,
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Linen napkin with embroidery of two figures in pointed hats
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Exhibition panel on women's rights in Russia, 1914–1919
Coming Up · Moscow · Museums · Observations · Mores
What to Visit in Moscow Right Now?
What is worth visiting in Moscow right now? The Museum of Moscow has opened a remarkable, very large and capacious exhibition, rich in allusions: “Moskvichka. Women of the Soviet Capital in the 1920s and 1930s”. The museum's team spent a year and a half preparing the project, and
Coming Up · The East · Moscow · Education
Lectures in Moscow from 26 April to 2 May on Turgenev, Djenné and the Tretyakov Gallery
Which lectures to attend? If you are asking yourself this question and are in search of intellectual leisure, I advise you to look closely at the forthcoming events in Moscow. 🧩26 April at 10:00 International conference “The USA and the Changing Balance of Power in the Asia-Pacific Region”
London · Observations · Humour
Let us assume that the horses of the Apocalypse have already galloped through London, or at least two of the four?
Although it is reported in some quarters that there were in fact four frightened horses which bolted from a cavalry rehearsal in the Belgravia area and covered the distance to Shadwell in the east of London, injuring themselves and some of those they met along the way
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Display case with a photo of the Chekhov brothers and a Light and Shadows cover, 1882
Moscow · Museums · Observations · People
If, like me, you spent years riding the “Bukashka” along the Garden Ring and, hearing the announcement of the stop “Chekhov House-Museum”, thought: “The Chekhov museum, I really must go in”, then right now, for example, there is a curious exhibition there
Thanks to the exhibition, which has the witty title “I Have No Better Photograph”, I learned that Anton Pavlovich was very fond of being photographed. True, he was not particularly inclined to change his pose. There are dozens of pictures taken many years apart in which he sits literally in
NB! · Books · Moscow · Museums
The pen with which Chekhov wrote The Cherry Orchard
The pen with which Chekhov wrote The Cherry Orchard. Chekhov House Museum, Moscow
Science · Pop Culture · Humour
A meme on how the world is full of physics for those who never studied magic
So invisibility cloaks are possible thanks to nanotechnology, metalenses and metamaterials, which bend light away from the concealed area, hiding it? As the well-known meme has it, for those who never studied magic, the world is full of physics