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Tomorrow at 6.30 p.m. a new monument to Fyodor Mikhailovich is due to be unveiled beside the "Dostoevsky" bookshop; this year he is, after all, 200

Tomorrow at 6.30 p.m. a new monument to Fyodor Mikhailovich is due to be unveiled beside the "Dostoevsky" bookshop; this year he is, after all, 200. The previous Dostoevsky sits literally 20 metres away, on the little patch by the Lenin Library, where he has been

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Probationary Period at the LDPR

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Good Yasnaya Polyana morning

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Lyubimovka young playwrights festival at the Sovremennik Theatre until 10 September

While I am at the "Tolstoy" theatre festival at Yasnaya Polyana, the "Lyubimovka" festival of young dramatists is running in Moscow until 10 September. Readings of plays are held at the Sovremennik Theatre; admission is free, by registration, which opens the day before each event, and

A young man and a woman use smartphones to photograph a plywood plaque with text fixed to a large pile of branches among the trees of a summer forest.

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Two people photograph a plaque on a brushwood pile in the forest

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Walking Dmitry Volkostrelov's route at Yasnaya Polyana during the "Tolstoy" theatre festival

My colleagues and I walked Dmitry Volkostrelov's route at Yasnaya Polyana during the "Tolstoy" theatre festival. The length of the path equals the combined length of all the lines of the first edition of War and Peace. A stroll of some 6 km: the sum of

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"Only sparkling wines produced in the province of Champagne may be called champagne..."

Pavel Titov's kiosk in Krasnodar:

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"Though our life is not like yours, as silver is not like roofing tin…"

Kirill Serebrennikov writes that the Moscow Art Theatre (MKhT) has dropped Zoyka's Apartment from its repertoire after nine years. It is the only production I saw five times, beginning with the premiere and going on watching it for years, and I would gladly have gone again.

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The Funerary Urn of Yegor Krid?

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Anna Lea Merritt on the obstacles facing a woman artist and the role of a wife

"The main obstacle to a woman's success is that she can never have a wife. Just imagine what a wife does for an artist: darns his stockings, keeps the household going, writes his letters... How very hard it is to be an artist without such a saving

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Watching on a theatre stage a pelt that has passed through the hands of 83 people is a most diverting attraction

In "Triumph" by the company Second Act it is Shere Khan's pelt from a fragmented post-dramatic "Mowgli", embroidered by the hands of volunteers. Congratulations to the Meyerhold Centre on the opening of its new season!

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Continuing our Papal Readings: the second part of Pope Francis's interview with Carlos Herrera

Continuing our Papal Readings, I offer the second part of Pope Francis's interview with Carlos Herrera. Read attentively; Saint Peter will be checking later. On euthanasia - We live in a culture of rejection. What is useless is thrown away. The old are disposable material: they irritate. Not all

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