According to data for 2024, library attendance in Russia has risen one and a half times since 2020, reaching more than 482 thousand people; in 2020 libraries were visited by 288,802 people

Even so, you will understand, half a million people a year is catastrophically few for a literate, educated country of 140 million. Sad, comrades

I alone visit some 300 times a year, though it is unclear here whether they counted unique visitors or the total number of visits. If the former, my contribution alone comes to 0.06%

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September digest: archaeological finds, exhibitions, museums, theatre and the Church

In the finale of the Strugatskys' Roadside Picnic, the Golden Ball is told: "Happiness for everybody, free, and let nobody go away unsatisfied!" I do not promise to offend nobody, but the digest really does come free of charge. So, here is the main business of the

Frederic Leighton

Frederic Leighton. “Daedalus and Icarus”, 1869 Daedalus warns his son not to climb too high: the heat of the sun may melt the wax, but Icarus is already gazing into the distance, and the lamentations of a foolish old man interest him not in the least

According to data for 2024, library attendance in Russia has risen one and a half times since 2020, reaching more than 482 thousand people; in 2020 libraries were visited by 288,802 people

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September digest: archaeological finds, exhibitions, museums, theatre and the Church

Frederic Leighton

Attempts to resolve the problems of many years of uncontrolled mass migration

Characters from Gogol's "Petersburg Tales" on the pedestal of the monument to Nikolai Gogol on Nikitsky Boulevard, photograph of the 1960s