A lacquered tray with a wavy edge hangs on a wall. On its dark green ground is a painted bouquet of cream and peach roses, tulips and ferns, with an orange dragonfly above.

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Lacquered tray with a painted bouquet of roses and tulips and a dragonfly

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Towards the close of the day, in the manner of a "farewell tour", I looked in on the opening of the Rosizo exhibition "Trin-trava" at the Turgenev-Botkin mansion in Petroverigsky Lane

Towards the close of the day, in the manner of a "farewell tour", I looked in on the opening of the Rosizo exhibition "Trin-trava" at the Turgenev-Botkin mansion in Petroverigsky Lane. There are some interesting interpretations of the Russian style, but on the whole

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Photographs from the exhibition on the letter Ё at the Slovo pavilion, VDNKh

Photographs from the exhibition on the letter Ё at the Slovo pavilion, VDNKh. A very atmospheric and coherent picture. It is a pity that we shall soon be deprived of public cultural life altogether, though visiting museums is, of course, hundreds of times safer than going to shops and restaurants,

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If you can afford the luxury of four hours of very beautiful film, watch the screen version, or rather variation, of Balzac's exquisite novella "The Unknown Masterpiece", about the painter Nicolas Poussin

If you can afford the luxury of four hours of very beautiful film, watch the screen version, or rather variation, of Balzac's exquisite novella "The Unknown Masterpiece", about the painter Nicolas Poussin. In the leading male role of Jacques Rivette's "La Belle Noiseuse&

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And in Saint Petersburg, until 31 December (for the time being) one may (God willing) still visit the exhibition "Joseph Brodsky

And in Saint Petersburg, until 31 December (for the time being) one may (God willing) still visit the exhibition "Joseph Brodsky. Preserve My Shadow", built on the interiors and the history of the one and a half rooms in a communal flat at 24 Liteyny, where the Brodsky

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And yet, at the main building of the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, a new season of the festival "Fridays at the Pushkin" has begun, due to run until 25 December

And yet, at the main building of the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, a new season of the festival "Fridays at the Pushkin" has begun, due to run until 25 December. This year the friends of the museum have been offered a poetic collaboration with the actors

Two women with microphones sit in leather armchairs on a small bookstore stage. Screens show a book cover, copies are stacked on a shelf, and an audience watches.

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Presentation of Sati Spivakova's Neskuchnaya Klassika at the Dostoevsky bookstore

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The shocking news of the ban on cultural events in Moscow from 13 November caught me quite literally at the presentation of Sati Spivakova's new book "Nescuchnaya klassika" at the Dostoevsky bookshop and reading club

The shocking news of the ban on cultural events in Moscow from 13 November caught me quite literally at the presentation of Sati Spivakova's new book "Nescuchnaya klassika" [Classics Without the Boredom] at the Dostoevsky bookshop and reading club. The number of guests was incredible, and

Cinema · Observations · Society

The plot of the 1947 film "New Home" is built around a disputed plot of land, Zarechnye Dubki, which a former partisan, chairwoman of the "Young Guard" collective farm, wants to sow, while an old partisan, chairman of the "Forward" collective farm, wants

The plot of the 1947 film "New Home" is built around a disputed plot of land, Zarechnye Dubki, which a former partisan, chairwoman of the "Young Guard" collective farm, wants to sow, while an old partisan, chairman of the "Forward" collective farm, wants to

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Rousseau portrait by Quentin de La Tour from the Salon of 1753, copy in Saint-Quentin

At university, in philosophy classes, I positively loathed Rousseau and metaphysics in general, considering it meaningless chatter that stole time from proper authors like Kuhn and Popper. But, all things considered, Jean-Jacques is a rather agreeable fellow. Especially in the guise of a citizen of Geneva in this portrait

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Exhibition on Catherine II with her manuscripts and personal items at the Kazan Kremlin

In Kazan, as part of the Hermitage Days, a most interesting exhibition is under way: "Catherine the Great. The Golden Age of the Russian Empire". It offers not only works of art that captured the Empress, but also the personal belongings of Catherine II and her grandsons, and

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