Faith · Books · Observations · People
I have a naive but perfectly achievable wish: that good, true translations of the English poet and saint Robert Southwell might at last be published in Russian. It is hard to find an author who describes the Christian universe so eloquently and uplifts the spirit so, or who conveys metaphysical
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Spacing (the Russian shpatsiya, from the German Spatium) is a typographical term for a thin plate used to make gaps narrower than the body of a type. As for the rule concerning the gap between initials, I find it very hard to observe, simply because the standard interval in that
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Эней был парубок бедовый И хлопец хоть куда казак, На шашни прыткий, непутевый, Затмил он записных гуляк. Когда же Трою в битве грозной Сровняли с кучею навозной, Котомку сгреб и тягу дал; С собою прихватил троянцев, Бритоголовых голодранцев, И грекам пятки показал. Literal translation I have discovered an incredible pleasure,
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Books · Observations · Mores · Society
I remember reading in a book about the American Civil War (1861-1865) that the state went on paying war pensions right up to the 1960s. Not a bad lag of a hundred years. But quite recently, in another book, written in the 1990s, I came across an interview with
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Nadya Obolentseva has asked an interesting question, but to my mind the choice is obvious. P.S. Both books go beautifully with the Hermès tea service ❤️
Architecture · Books · Moscow · Science · Society
Literary critic and editor of the magazine "Znanie-Sila" Olga Balla writes that this Saturday the editorial office is being evicted from the seventeenth-century chambers on Kozhevnicheskaya Street, where it had been based for several decades. The magazine itself has existed since 1926 and is one of
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The most expensive, of course, is the collection of my rare works and letters at 433,000 roubles on Ozon. So far I cannot afford them myself 😂
In the Press · Books · Observations · Humour
I know everyone has already written about the "book" issue of Elle, guest-edited by Anna Popova, whom we know from the Dostoevsky bookshop. I leafed through it, and there is Katya Mukhina in her editor's letter writing about an assistant who stole from her the
NB! · Books · Moscow · Observations
Well, my dears, the book is finally out. Thank you all for waiting alongside me. I bought my own copy at the Moskva bookshop, but I hope it will turn up in other bookshops too 💓
Books · Moscow · People
On 13 March 1890 the student Konstantin Dmitrievich Balmont threw himself from a window of the Louvre furnished rooms on Tverskaya and survived, getting off with a broken leg that would leave him limping for many years. Perhaps this is a touch of belletristic exaggeration, but Balmont's limp
Art · Books · Humour
But this is in fact an illustration by the British artist Angela Barrett for the 1993 Snow White. The Queen lets three drops of blood fall on the snow, having pricked herself while sewing pearls onto a length of brocade, and wishes for a beautiful child with white skin, dark