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The English vet James Herriot, who became famous for his touching and instructive writings about livestock, farm life and the treatment of animals, has a story about a loathsome fat man who beat his wife

The English vet James Herriot, who became famous for his touching and instructive writings about livestock, farm life and the treatment of animals, has a story about a loathsome fat man who beat his wife. When the domestic tyrant happened to injure himself, and Herriot drove him to the doctor

Coming Up · Books · Museums

Museum life is not confined to the big cities

Museum life is not confined to the big cities. In Sarapul, for example, the House-Museum of the mining engineer and academician Nikolai Melnikov (1909-1980) is showing “Brockhaus and Efron: The History of One Encyclopaedia” until the end of the year, marking 130 years since the publication of the

Art · Cinema · Books · Observations

If you can afford the luxury of four hours of very beautiful film, watch the screen version, or rather variation, of Balzac's exquisite novella "The Unknown Masterpiece", about the painter Nicolas Poussin

If you can afford the luxury of four hours of very beautiful film, watch the screen version, or rather variation, of Balzac's exquisite novella "The Unknown Masterpiece", about the painter Nicolas Poussin. In the leading male role of Jacques Rivette's "La Belle Noiseuse&

Coming Up · Books · Museums · People · Saint Petersburg

And in Saint Petersburg, until 31 December (for the time being) one may (God willing) still visit the exhibition "Joseph Brodsky

And in Saint Petersburg, until 31 December (for the time being) one may (God willing) still visit the exhibition "Joseph Brodsky. Preserve My Shadow", built on the interiors and the history of the one and a half rooms in a communal flat at 24 Liteyny, where the Brodsky

Interviews · Books · Moscow · Observations · Society Pages

The shocking news of the ban on cultural events in Moscow from 13 November caught me quite literally at the presentation of Sati Spivakova's new book "Nescuchnaya klassika" at the Dostoevsky bookshop and reading club

The shocking news of the ban on cultural events in Moscow from 13 November caught me quite literally at the presentation of Sati Spivakova's new book "Nescuchnaya klassika" [Classics Without the Boredom] at the Dostoevsky bookshop and reading club. The number of guests was incredible, and

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The exhibition “Dots over Ё” on the history of the letter ё is open at the Slovo Centre at VDNKh until 11 January 2021

Until 11 January 2021 the “Slovo” Centre at VDNKh in Moscow is hosting the exhibition “Dots over Ё”, devoted to the history of one of the most controversial letters of the Russian alphabet. The exhibition offers a kind of retrospective of letter usage from the 13th century to the present

Faith · Books · Education · Society

Russian Orthodox Church proposes adding sacred texts to school literature course without age ratings

The Russian Orthodox Church proposes adding sacred texts to the school literature curriculum. Moreover, in the view of the Church's representatives, the foundational texts of "traditional" religions should carry no age rating.

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Francesco Morosini's Bible with a pistol hidden inside its pages

Francesco Morosini, famed above all for his military successes in the name of Venice and remembered in history as the man who destroyed the Parthenon in Athens, was terribly afraid of assassination and hid weapons for self-defence everywhere. Here is his Bible, whose bookmark served as the trigger of

Cinema · Books · Pop Culture · Humour

The 1975 film “Miniatures” and the fates of Zhvanetsky, Kartsev and Ilchenko

The first film made from a script by Zhvanetsky is the 1975 Miniatures with Roman Kartsev and Viktor Ilchenko. It turns out that all three are now dead: Ilchenko was the first to go, at 55, having been tipped for great success on the variety stage. Kartsev died 2 years

Art · Books · Observations

Origin of the word miniature from Latin minium, the red paint used in manuscript books

The notion of the miniature, oddly enough, has nothing to do with size, and the word derives not from minimum but from the Latin minium, the name of the red pigments often used in the decoration of manuscript books. In time the words miniature and miniature (as an adjective) came

Books · Observations · Education

Grammatical gender of the word biennale in spelling and foreign word dictionaries

In the Russian Academy of Sciences' Orthographic Dictionary of Russian, biennale and b'ennale are recorded as nouns of masculine or feminine gender. The dictionary of foreign words, however, makes biennale neuter. In practice, meanwhile, we find that biennale is most often used as a feminine word. Though

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An analysis of the phrase about the century's youth coinciding with Vladimir Ulyanov's youth

There are expressions that seem to mean nothing at all and to have no sense whatever, and yet seem to contain some beautiful, even winged, thought. Take, for example, “the youth of the century coincided with the youth of Vladimir Ulyanov”. What does this phrase actually tell us? That in