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Until 11 January 2021 the “Slovo” Centre at VDNKh in Moscow is hosting the exhibition “Dots over Ё”, devoted to the history of one of the most controversial letters of the Russian alphabet. The exhibition offers a kind of retrospective of letter usage from the 13th century to the present
Faith · Books · Education · Society
The Russian Orthodox Church proposes adding sacred texts to the school literature curriculum. Moreover, in the view of the Church's representatives, the foundational texts of "traditional" religions should carry no age rating.
Art · Paris · Pop Culture · Humour
On 24 November Christie's will offer the baton of Marshal Alphonse Juin, made in 1952 by the house of Arthus-Bertrand, and with it a wildly charming trifle: a lipstick case belonging to the marshal's wife, Marie Gabrielle Cécile Bonnefoy, made in the form of a
Art · Moscow · Mores · Society Pages
Creative life is returning to Peredelkino with the revival of its place of pilgrimage, the House of Creativity, which for many has become the most beloved place this autumn and truly echoes the revival of dacha culture and an interest in authentically Russian leisure. Today, at the Shaltai Editions brunch
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Francesco Morosini, famed above all for his military successes in the name of Venice and remembered in history as the man who destroyed the Parthenon in Athens, was terribly afraid of assassination and hid weapons for self-defence everywhere. Here is his Bible, whose bookmark served as the trigger of
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The first film made from a script by Zhvanetsky is the 1975 Miniatures with Roman Kartsev and Viktor Ilchenko. It turns out that all three are now dead: Ilchenko was the first to go, at 55, having been tipped for great success on the variety stage. Kartsev died 2 years
Art · Books · Observations
The notion of the miniature, oddly enough, has nothing to do with size, and the word derives not from minimum but from the Latin minium, the name of the red pigments often used in the decoration of manuscript books. In time the words miniature and miniature (as an adjective) came
Art · Museums · Observations · Paris
The banker's wife Sophie Couteux du Molay with her children, a miniature of 1787 by Jacques-Antoine Lemoine called The Balcony. It is in the collection of the Louvre. I am very fond of the slanting, carelessly fixed blinds, and of the boy holding the cord in his
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