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The State Museum of the East, at 12A Nikitsky Boulevard, presents an exhibition devoted to the artistic legacy of the Volkov-Rybnikov dynasty
The State Museum of the East, at 12A Nikitsky Boulevard, presents an exhibition devoted to the artistic legacy of the Volkov-Rybnikov dynasty. The display runs until 8 November and comprises some one hundred and fifty works of painting, graphic art and sculpture by three generations of the family. The
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Wrought-iron gate with floral ornament and hinge on a whitewashed wall
Coming Up · Architecture · Moscow · Observations · Heritage · Society
Volunteers restore the cast iron fence of the Demidov town estate in Bolshoy Tolmachevsky Lane
The legendary openwork cast-iron fence of the Demidov town estate in Bolshoy Tolmachyovsky Lane regains its former appearance thanks to the efforts of the "Remember Everything" Labour Commune and the volunteer organisation "Ecological and Cultural Association Sloboda". A magnificent pattern emerges from beneath the accumulated
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"Black Blizzard" by the Brusnikin Troupe at the Praktika Theatre
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The Anichkov Bridge in the 1870s
Moscow · Observations · Humour
Anna Garnova Is Altogether Too Beautiful for a Mayor's Wife
Anna Garnova is altogether too beautiful for a mayor's wife. But for a governor's lady or a chamberlain's consort she would do very nicely. The scene after Khlestakov's proposal, with Andrey Mezhulis and Evdokia Kareva, from Yevgeny Marchelli's The Government
Archive · Art · Books · People
Pushkin on age and looks in a letter to his wife from Trigorskoye, 25 September 1835
…yesterday I met an acquaintance, a peasant woman, to whom I could not help remarking that she had changed… And she said to me: you too, my dear provider, have grown old, and plain besides. Though I might say, together with my late nanny: handsome I never was, but young
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In a few minutes, in the assembly hall of the Peredelkino House of Creativity, our conversation with Marcello Simonetta about his new book "The Furious Farnese" will begin
Science · Palaeontology · Nature
First known feathers of hesperornithiform birds found in a coprolite from Montana
A Feather Found in the Fossilised Dung of a Large Dinosaur Dating from 66 Million Years Ago. David DeMar of the Burke Museum at the University of Washington found the specimen in 2016 in north-eastern Montana, while collecting fossil fish. He picked up a dark reddish-brown nodule about
Architecture · Geography · Heritage
Photographs from the excavation of the "underground city" in Tbilisi
Grandiose subterranean halls with vaulted tiers came to light in August during repair work in the courtyard of the Melik-Azaryants tenement house on Rustaveli Avenue, on the side towards Republic Square. Naturally, talk of buried cities at once revived, which is, on the one hand, perfectly understandable: how can
Art · London · Society
Bronze “Lady in Blue” becomes the sixteenth work on a London plinth
On 10 September a sculpture by the American artist Chabalala Self, "Lady in Blue", appeared on the plinth in the north-west corner of Trafalgar Square in London. Contemporary art has been shown on the pedestal, built in the 19th century for an equestrian statue that was never