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Viktor Pelevin's twentieth novel, "Journey to Eleusis", about a corporate simulation of Ancient Rome, has at last reached all bookshops, Bookmate and the Yandex Plus subscription, and for the first time all at once

Coming Up · Books · Observations

Viktor Pelevin's twentieth novel, "Journey to Eleusis", about a corporate simulation of Ancient Rome, has at last reached all bookshops, Bookmate and the Yandex Plus subscription, and for the first time all at once

The Eleusinian Mysteries, which for many centuries were a kind of centre of the ancient world, have managed to keep their secret down to the present day: what actually went on behind the doors of the Telesterion remains one of the greatest riddles of history. Many have tried to answer

By Alexandr Radayev
We all love stories about old men and women who adorn their cottages with the gold of village baroque, turn plain country houses into galleries of the lubok and, with no artistic training whatever, paint vast canvases on themes…

Coming Up · Art · Museums · Ethnography

We all love stories about old men and women who adorn their cottages with the gold of village baroque, turn plain country houses into galleries of the lubok and, with no artistic training whatever, paint vast canvases on themes…

We all love stories about old men and women who adorn their cottages with the gold of village baroque, turn plain country houses into galleries of the lubok and, with no artistic training whatever, paint vast canvases on themes of simple Russian life. These artistic phenomena are usually classed as

By Alexandr Radayev
On 27 July the MMOMA Education Centre at 17 Yermolayevsky Lane will open "Artist-Collector", an exhibition project by Georgy Kizevalter, a representative of Moscow Conceptualism and one of the founders of the art group Collective Actions

Coming Up · Art · Moscow · Museums

On 27 July the MMOMA Education Centre at 17 Yermolayevsky Lane will open "Artist-Collector", an exhibition project by Georgy Kizevalter, a representative of Moscow Conceptualism and one of the founders of the art group Collective Actions

On 27 July the MMOMA Education Centre at 17 Yermolayevsky Lane will open "Artist-Collector", an exhibition project by Georgy Kizevalter, a representative of Moscow Conceptualism and one of the founders of the art group Collective Actions. Kizevalter works in such media as painting, photography, installation and performance,

By Alexandr Radayev
From 1 July to 26 August the Hermitage, GES-2 and the Pakgauzy in Nizhny Novgorod host the Pianissimo summer festival

Coming Up · Observations · Pop Culture · Saint Petersburg

From 1 July to 26 August the Hermitage, GES-2 and the Pakgauzy in Nizhny Novgorod host the Pianissimo summer festival

Twenty-six concerts in which works by Chopin, Rachmaninoff, Tchaikovsky, Mozart and Schubert will be performed by talented young pianists who, in keeping with good tradition, stand at the very beginning of their careers but are already recognised by the professional community. Last year I attended the Pianissimo concerts at

By Alexandr Radayev
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