Architecture · Faith · Art
Mikhail Nesterov, “Saint Olga”, sketch for the murals of St Vladimir’s Cathedral in Kyiv, 1892
Saint Olga. Mikhail Nesterov. Sketch for the mural and the mural itself in St Vladimir's Cathedral in Kyiv, 1892
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Architecture · Moscow · Heritage · Society
Last residential building of the village of Vorobyovo demolished in Moscow on Kosygin Street
Grachev Dacha Demolished on Sparrow Hills in Moscow: the Last Surviving Wooden House in the District. The building at 18 Kosygin Street had been on the list of newly identified monuments since 2005. In March 2025 Mosgornasledie (the Moscow heritage authority) declined to enter it in the register of cultural
Architecture · Faith · Art · Moscow · Museums
Yaroslavl's Church of John the Baptist in Deyneka's painting “Footballer”
The painting "Footballer" by Alexander Deineka, which can be seen at the artist's exhibition at the Tretyakov Gallery on Kadashevskaya, depicts the bell tower of the Church of John the Baptist in Yaroslavl, the very one that appears on the 1,000-rouble banknote. The 45-
Architecture · Faith · Heritage · Paris
On 23 June, after six years of restoration and with the blessing of the Archbishop of Paris, Laurent Ulrich, the first of sixteen copper statues returned to its place on the spire of Notre-Dame de Paris
The first statue to be placed on the spire was that of Saint Thomas, and it is in many ways a symbolic choice. Saint Thomas is regarded as the patron saint of architects. The composition consists of figures of the 12 apostles and four symbolic figures of the evangelists: an
Architecture · Art · Moscow · Museums · Heritage
Restoration of Demut-Malinovsky's Catherine II monument completed at Museum of Architecture
In the sculpture courtyard of the A.V. Shchusev Museum of Architecture, the open restoration of the memorial monument with the bust of Catherine II, created by the sculptor Vasily Ivanovich Demut-Malinovsky in 1834, has come to an end. The monument is an allegorical sculptural group on a single
NB! · Archive · Architecture · Moscow · Heritage
Such a combination of the incompatible: the gates of a nineteenth-century Moscow estate and the signboard of the Red Rubber factory. On the grounds of this property on Plyushchikha, a factory club to a design by Konstantin Melnikov would be built in 1929
Architecture · Moscow · Museums
A branch of the State Historical Museum, the Central Museum of the Russian Cossacks, has opened in the former Court Office building in Bolshoy Levshinsky Lane
The exhibition comprises 16 halls devoted to the history of all the Cossack hosts and Guards formations of the Russian Empire. Among the 800 exhibits are a numismatic collection, orders and decorations, weapons, uniforms, banners, paintings, graphic art, sculpture, archival documents and maps.
Coming Up · Architecture · Heritage · Education · Saint Petersburg
Saint Petersburg's Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatory plans to organise tours of its renovated historic building once the repairs are complete
The main works are due to be finished by December, but some classes may resume as early as September. Particular attention has been paid to preserving the historic appearance of the building while equipping it with modern facilities. The acoustics of the Rubinstein Great Hall have been improved, and the
Architecture · Museums · Science · Paris · Saint Petersburg
The world's largest Foucault pendulum in St Isaac's Cathedral operated until 1986
In 1931, a Foucault pendulum, the invention of a French astronomer of 1851 that demonstrates the rotation of the Earth, was installed beneath the dome of Saint Isaac's Cathedral. And if the pendulum that Jean Foucault hung beneath the dome of the Paris Panthéon on a 67-metre
Archive · Architecture · Books · Moscow
Photograph from the second volume of the 1986 book “Moscow”
View of the Stalin skyscraper on Vosstaniya Square from Bolshaya Nikitskaya Street, autumn 1980. From the book "Moscow", Volume II, 1986
Architecture · Moscow · Observations · Heritage
Project for the repair and restoration of the Mosselprom House in Kalashny Lane, a monument of Constructivism and one of the architectural symbols of the capital, has been approved
The restoration project includes the recovery of the graphic design of the façades, executed by Rodchenko and Stepanova. The wooden windows and doors will be restored, as will the Metlakh tile flooring in the entrance hall. On the staircase, the metal railings with their wrought and cast decorative details will
Architecture · Moscow · Society · Rome · Humour
The Palace of Italian Civilisation in Rome, its architecture, the Dioscuri and Fendi
If you too sometimes feel that most Moscow architects, with all their arches, cappuccino colours and studiedly plain façades, are simply trying to copy some little-known famous building, your instinct has not failed you. Such a building exists. It is called the Palace of Italian Civilisation and was built