While I am at the "Tolstoy" theatre festival at Yasnaya Polyana, the "Lyubimovka" festival of young dramatists is running in Moscow until 10 September

While I am at the "Tolstoy" theatre festival at Yasnaya Polyana, the "Lyubimovka" festival of young dramatists is running in Moscow until 10 September. Readings of plays are held at the Sovremennik Theatre; admission is free, by registration, which opens the day before each event, and the website offers access to online broadcasts. I am certain it will be splendid, since it has nothing whatever to do with Nilleto

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At the close of the Strugatskys' "Roadside Picnic" the Golden Sphere is asked for this: "Happiness for everybody, free, and let nobody go away unsatisfied!" I do not promise to leave no one aggrieved, but the digest really does come free

At the close of the Strugatskys' "Roadside Picnic" the Golden Sphere is asked for this: "Happiness for everybody, free, and let nobody go away unsatisfied!" I do not promise to leave no one aggrieved, but the digest really does come free. So, here is 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

While I am at the "Tolstoy" theatre festival at Yasnaya Polyana, the "Lyubimovka" festival of young dramatists is running in Moscow until 10 September

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At the close of the Strugatskys' "Roadside Picnic" the Golden Sphere is asked for this: "Happiness for everybody, free, and let nobody go away unsatisfied!" I do not promise to leave no one aggrieved, but the digest really does come free

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