Coming Up · Art · Paris
Until the end of February the Paris Opera is staging a new production of Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin, sung in Russian, at the Palais Garnier. It is Ralph Fiennes's directorial debut in opera. The performances are enjoying enormous success. Le Monde praises the production for its theatrical
The East · Nature
"Snow Spirits" The Chinese photographer Wei Anqing, 2025. The photograph was taken on a phone camera
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Konstantin Dorokhov, 1938
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Art · Moscow · Museums · Observations
The Ekaterina Foundation on Kuznetsky Most: city centre, spacious bright halls, not a soul about, so why not go? Two exhibitions are currently running there, and I dropped in to have a look at Vilgeny Melnikov and Oleg Maslov with their walk, "The Garden Keeper". A pleasant, unassuming
NB! · Cinema · Humour
The Scottish-Ugandan Joan of Arc, Mandipa Kabana. In a stage production, admittedly, not in a film
Faith
The times are hard and dangerous. The enemy advances subtly, cunningly, and draws near. One can feel the breath of the Antichrist. On no account give way to panic. It is precisely now that signals are coming which incline us to draw closer to God and to one another. Let
Architecture · Art · Heritage · Saint Petersburg
The monument to Pushkin by the sculptor Leopold Bernstam was erected in the town of Pushkin, at the intersection of Oktyabrsky Boulevard, Dvortsovaya Street and Peterburgskoye Highway, in July 1938. During the Great Patriotic War, when the town was occupied by German troops, who destroyed and damaged many structures of
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Archive · The East · Art · Books · Mores · People · Saint Petersburg
Watercolour by Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov, 1841 Alexei Stolypin was Mikhail Lermontov's first cousin once removed and a close friend. Alexei was the son of Arkady Alexeyevich Stolypin, Procurator-General of the Senate, who was the brother of Lermontov's grandmother. On completing the School of Guards Sub-
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And not a Peking duck in sight