NB! · Museums · Observations · Society · Saint Petersburg
A queue for the Kunstkamera. The museum has thrown open its doors free of charge at the very peak of the coronavirus wave. Colleagues, are you quite sure this was the right decision? Does nothing give you pause?
Moscow · Observations · Mores · Society Pages
The gallery of photographs of distinguished guests at Pirosmani, the oldest Georgian restaurant in Moscow, has a new addition: Inna Churikova and Gleb Panfilov among friends. Every new reality, after all, has its own aesthetic hallmarks by which future generations will easily recognise its milestones, rather as in: “Dear friends,
Observations · Education · Society
The struggle against the revision of history and the want of patriotism could not logically fail to widen the domains of censorship and to prompt attempts to regulate the various branches of intellectual activity. A law is now being pushed through on what enlightenment may be and what it may
NB! · Archive · Humour
NB! · Archaeology · Art · Observations · Heritage
A magnificent mosaic of scenes showing the transport of exotic animals, 4th century AD, Villa del Casale, Sicily. I am particularly struck by the exhaustive information it gives on the clothing of the period, in both colours and details.
Moscow · Museums · Observations · Society
The news dates from the end of November, when one could still visit museums after a fashion, but all the same: ticket revenue at the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts fell by almost 70% in 2020 compared with the previous year. What are other museums to do, those without
Faith · The East · Mores · Ethnography
The custom of burning wives after the death of their husbands existed among many Indo-European peoples; its most recent manifestation is the tradition of wives' self-immolation, which survived in India until the mid-nineteenth century. Sati was officially banned in 1829, but cases of widow self-immolation
In the Press · Books · Observations · Humour
I know everyone has already written about the "book" issue of Elle, guest-edited by Anna Popova, whom we know from the Dostoevsky bookshop. I leafed through it, and there is Katya Mukhina in her editor's letter writing about an assistant who stole from her the
Science · People · Nature · Humour
Science · People · Humour
In the academic journal Physical Review Letters of 24 November 1975 there appeared a cryogenics paper, "Two-, Three-, and Four-Atom Exchange Effects in bcc 3He", by Professors J. H. Hetherington and F. D. C. Willard of the Department of Physics of the University of Michigan. Five years
NB! · Books · Moscow · Observations
Well, my dears, the book is finally out. Thank you all for waiting alongside me. I bought my own copy at the Moskva bookshop, but I hope it will turn up in other bookshops too 💓
Aristocracy · Archive · Faith · People
Photograph from the Byron family vault in the Church of St Mary Magdalene at Hucknall. The poet's remains lie in a coffin bearing a small coronet. Beneath it stands the coffin of the previous lord, the Wicked or Sinful Byron, his great-uncle, which in turn rests on