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Today sees the long-awaited opening of the mysterious park in the former pioneer camp of Veretyevo near Dubna, designed by Alexander Brodsky himself, who conducted one of the first tours between the clumps of nettles and thickets of thistle. The landscape park, laid out right on a bog, is
NB! · Architecture · Museums · Observations
A small thing, but what splendour! Sickle, hammer and ears of wheat: the stylised lamps at the entrance to the Soil and Agronomy Museum
Architecture · Moscow · Observations · Heritage · Education
Russian eclectic pseudo-Baroque strikes straight to the heart. Look at these cheerful and severe features of the Petrovskaya Agricultural Academy on the grounds of the old Petrovsko-Razumovskoye estate! The convex Finnish glass ordered to the design of the architect Benois has survived to this day. One is tempted,
Architecture · Faith · Monarchies · Heritage · Paris
Model of the Basilica of Saint-Denis, built in 1144 on the site of an older building dating back to the mid-fifth century. The construction of this church marks the birth of Gothic architecture. The model shows Saint-Denis with its reconstructed north tower, which was taken down for
Architecture · Observations · Paris · Pop Culture
Louis Vuitton, as ever, on an unattainable height. I do not know how I contrived to miss this news in January, when Virgil Abloh presented at the Louis Vuitton show during Paris Fashion Week two three-dimensional capes bearing architectural monuments, as part of the autumn-winter menswear collection. One
NB! · Archaeology · Architecture · The East · Observations
Archaeologists beside an imposing 20-tonne Corinthian capital at the excavation site in Cyzicus, in the west of modern Turkey. If the capital crowning the column is 2.5 metres high and 1.9 metres in diameter, can you imagine how large the column itself must have been?
Architecture · Moscow · Pop Culture · Society Pages
At the Old Stock Greenhouse in the Botanical Garden of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the presentation of Roma Uvarov's new upcycled collection. The building is phenomenal, dating from the late 1940s, the core of its plant collection came from the Potsdam greenhouse, received in 1947, and the
NB! · Architecture · Heritage · Saint Petersburg
Before and after restoration. A favourite genre. A bas-relief on the façade of the apartment building at 19 Vosstaniya Street in Saint Petersburg
Archaeology · Architecture · Observations
If you look closely at this type of Egyptian column, made in the form of bound papyrus stems with capitals shaped like unopened papyrus flowers, it resembles a pair of mighty hands holding up the architrave on five outstretched fingers. The columns in the photograph are from Luxor. In architectural
NB! · Archive · Architecture
Installing a capital on one of the 32 Ionic columns, nearly 13 metres high, on the top of the Civil Courts Building in St. Louis, 1930. The roof of this building was modelled on one of the wonders of the ancient world, the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus.
Architecture · Art · Moscow
The first sight of Moscow. John Pott Laslett. On 2 September Napoleon approached Moscow and climbed Poklonnaya Hill, expecting that at any moment, somewhere near Dragomilovo, a delegation of townspeople would present him with the keys to the city. But by that day, of the 270,000 inhabitants the ancient
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Irina Kupchenko, Rimas Tuminas, Lyudmila Maksakova, Nina Nekhlopchenko and Kirill Krok at a memorial gathering in honour of the Vakhtangov Theatre's veterans of the front. The Vakhtangov Theatre building was destroyed at the very beginning of the war, and dozens of the theatre's actors did not