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Vasily Polenov designed the Church of the Holy Trinity in Bekhovo, consecrated in 1907
Church of the Holy Trinity, designed by Vasily Polenov, village of Bekhovo. The church was consecrated in 1907
Faith · Art · Books · Ethnography
Ivan Bunin’s 1893 poem “Trinity” about a village liturgy on the feast of Trinity
A droning bell calls us to prayer, Ringing on sunbeams over the cornfields; The distance of the water-meadows drowns in blue, And the river on the meadows sparkles and burns. And in the village since morning the liturgy goes on in the church: The whole ambo is strewn with
Art · Society · Nature
Boris Rogachevsky's 1986 poster showing the Earth under a drawn roof
There Is No Other Home! Poster by Boris Rogachevsky, 1986
Art · Heritage · Society · People
Giacomo Manzù stele for the Lenin centenary installed on Capri in 1970
Monument to Lenin on Capri. The five-metre marble stele by the Italian sculptor Giacomo Manzù was erected in 1970 in the Gardens of Augustus, to mark the centenary of Lenin's birth, at the commission of the Soviet embassy in Italy. The inscription on the stele reads: “A
NB! · Art · Books
Vladimir Konashevich's Illustrations for Chukovsky's Fairy Tales
NB! · Art · Cinema · New York · People · Pop Culture · Humour
Adrien Brody makes his debut as a painter at an exhibition in New York
Paintings from Adrien Brody's debut exhibition in New York as proof that a man cannot be equally bad at two different things. And Brody the painter is even worse than Brody the actor
Aristocracy · Archive · Art · Moscow · Museums
The Museum of the Defence of Moscow holds a Group Portrait of the Descendants of A.S. Pushkin Who Took Part in the Great Patriotic War, 1957, by the artist Lieutenant Colonel (retd) Vladimir Pereyaslavets
The Museum of the Defence of Moscow holds a Group Portrait of the Descendants of A.S. Pushkin Who Took Part in the Great Patriotic War, 1957, by the artist Lieutenant Colonel (retd) Vladimir Pereyaslavets. The portrait does not gather all of Pushkin's descendants who served in the
Archaeology · Art · Museums · Paris
In 1896 the Louvre bought the tiara of the Scythian king Saitaphernes for 220,000 francs
In 1896 the Louvre bought the tiara of the Scythian king Saitaphernes for 220,000 francs. Eight of the foremost specialists in antiquity and the history of art pronounced it a masterpiece and assured everyone that it would become the pride of the Louvre. The Imperial Museum in Vienna had
NB! · Art · Monarchies · Observations · Humour
The Young Napoleon on the Bridge at Arcole Looks More Like the Musician Rod Stewart Than Like Himself in the Later Portraits
In the Press · Art · Moscow · Museums · Saint Petersburg
The Art Newspaper has compiled its ranking of the most visited museums and exhibitions of 2024, available at the link
The top ten most visited museums in the country looks like this: 1. Peterhof 2. Tsarskoye Selo 3. Saint Isaac's Cathedral 4. Russian Museum 5. Hermitage 6. Tretyakov Gallery 7. Tsaritsyno 8. Museum of the History of Saint Petersburg 9. Museum of the World Ocean (Kaliningrad) 10. Island-
Art · Observations · Humour
If Death in a shroud appears in the sky with a coffin under his arm, expect overcast weather
If the Pope, the king, the cardinals and the gentry are in the jaws of the beast, it will be hot, with an orange weather warning. If both at once, traffic jams of 9 points out of 10.