Coming Up · Museums · Saint Petersburg · Ethnography

A reminder that until 4 October the exhibition "Earthly Beauty: The Image of Woman in Folk Culture" can be seen in Saint Petersburg, prepared by specialists of the Russian Museum of Ethnography from ethnographic collections of the 19th-20…

A reminder that until 4 October the exhibition "Earthly Beauty: The Image of Woman in Folk Culture" can be seen in Saint Petersburg. It has been prepared by specialists of the Russian Museum of Ethnography from ethnographic collections of the 19th-20th centuries and historical photographs illustrating the

NB! · Observations · Humour

I Hereby Present You with This Stake for Planting Out Cabbage Seedlings; Do with It What You Will

Wooden carved frieze with large fruit and leaves on a darkened board, mounted on a museum gallery wall.

NB! · Architecture · Art · Observations

Carved Frieze of the Early 17th Century with Life-Size Fruit

An early seventeenth-century carved frieze with life-size fruit. Russian architecture, what's not to love? ❤️

Architecture · Faith · The East · Heritage

26 September 1687: during the Venetian siege of the Athenian Acropolis, the Parthenon, where the Turks had set up a powder magazine and a refuge, was blown up

On 26 September 1687, during the Venetian siege of the Athenian Acropolis, the Parthenon was blown up, the Turks having made it a powder magazine and a place of refuge. The Parthenon, which had by then served as a mosque for more than two hundred years, was bombarded without mercy:

NB! · Archive · Art

An Evening in Simach, Ferdinand van Kessel, 17th century

Coming Up · Pop Culture · Saint Petersburg

The Shostakovich Saint Petersburg State Academic Philharmonic celebrates its centenary and, to mark the opening of the new season, which coincides with Dmitri Shostakovich's birthday, will broadcast a grand concert live

The Shostakovich Saint Petersburg State Academic Philharmonic celebrates its centenary and, to mark the opening of the new season, which coincides with Dmitri Shostakovich's birthday, will broadcast a grand concert live. The programme includes Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 3 and Shostakovich's Symphony No. 1.

Cinema · Books · Observations · Society

National Electronic Library opens free access to classic works in an app

The National Electronic Library, under the Ministry of Culture, has released an app called “Svet” [“Light”] with free access to thousands of books, films and plays. Since we do, after a fashion, have a copyright law, what has been made openly available is mostly classic works whose terms happen to

NB! · Cinema · Observations · Pop Culture · Humour

Doesn't it seem to you that the great Bourvil, the outstanding comic actor and celebrated variety singer who died 50 years ago, bears a striking resemblance to Joseph Brodsky?

London · Observations · Society · People · Humour

I know that many are still mourning the untimely death of the American judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg, but let us not pass by the darlings still among us, such as Baroness Floella Benjamin, who celebrated her 71st birthday in such a dazzling look…

I know that many are still mourning the untimely death of the American judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg, but let us not pass by the darlings still among us, such as Baroness Floella Benjamin, who celebrated her 71st birthday in such a dazzling look that, as Andrey Malakhov would say, "

A man with a briefcase leans towards the window of a black London taxi, with speech bubbles about Waterloo.

London · People · Humour

A passenger and a taxi driver talk about Waterloo, the station and the battle

A true story that befell Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery, hero of the Second World War, in London, when he climbed into a taxi and said to the driver:. - Waterloo, please. - The railway station? - Of course. For the battle, it is a little late now.

Museums · Society · Saint Petersburg

Museum community on benefits for museum staff and the Hermitage's position

As for the view from the museum community, concessions are laid down in an order of the Russian Ministry of Culture, but there is also a list of concessions that a museum sets for itself, and the Hermitage has evidently availed itself of that right. In most museums, staff from

Moscow · Museums · Observations · Education · Society

Back in my postgraduate days I noted with vexation that the overwhelming majority of Moscow museums did not count a postgraduate card as a student one, and not only denied free entry, although one would think that a history faculty should be able to visit

Back in my postgraduate days I noted with vexation that the overwhelming majority of Moscow museums did not count a postgraduate card as a student one, and not only denied free entry (although one would think that a history faculty should be able to visit at least the historical museums

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