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No Matter What Was Around Them
No matter what was around them. And no matter what the blizzard was drawlingly howling about; That they were cramped in the shepherd's lodging, That there was no other place for them in the world. Firstly, they were together. The second thing, and the main one, was that
Books · People · Ethnography
Whereas the cleverer we become, the less we understand the meaning of life and the more we see some wicked mockery in the fact that we suffer and die, these people live, suffer and draw near to death with calm, and more often than not with joy
Whereas the cleverer we become, the less we understand the meaning of life and the more we see some wicked mockery in the fact that we suffer and die, these people live, suffer and draw near to death with calm, and more often than not with joy. Whereas a calm
Coming Up · Art · Books · Moscow
The Satirikon Theatre Announces Its Eighty-Eighth Season and Names Three Productions by Directors
The company assembled on 6 September 2026. The plans for the eighty-eighth season were set out by the artistic director Konstantin Raikin and the theatre's managing director Elizaveta Gavrilova. The theatre continues to operate without a stage of its own. The first premiere of the season was
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Marcus Aurelius advised retreating into oneself, for nowhere does a man withdraw more quietly
Marcus Aurelius advised retreating into oneself, for nowhere does a man withdraw more quietly. In the digest, for my part, I try to gather what has been published over the month while the memories are still fresh. So, the main things on the channel for August. The section on archaeology
Art · Books · Moscow · Pop Culture · Society Pages
At Lamoda's "Pygmalion's Fitting Room", one of the strangest stands at Cosmoscow, created by Valeria Titova and Daria Tishkova, they recall the story told by Ovid of the Cypriot sculptor who carved a figure from ivory and…
At Lamoda's "Pygmalion's Fitting Room", one of the strangest stands at Cosmoscow, created by Valeria Titova and Daria Tishkova, they recall the story told by Ovid of the Cypriot sculptor who carved a figure from ivory and fell in love with it. People usually
Cinema · Books · Pop Culture
Daniela Bianchi and Sean Connery during the filming of Terence Young's From Russia with Love, 1963
In the film based on Ian Fleming's novel, Sean Connery plays James Bond for the second time, while Daniela Bianchi plays Tatiana Romanova, a clerk at the Soviet consulate in Istanbul. The young woman does not suspect that she is being manipulated by the criminal organisation SPECTRE, which
Coming Up · Books · Saint Petersburg
From 4 to 6 September the Italian Garden will host "Book Garden", a festival marking the centenary of Podpisnye Izdaniya
The programme includes meetings with writers and researchers, lectures, concerts, a publishers' market, book-dating and a separate programme for children. Among the participants are Zhang Yueran, Marcello Simonetta, Angela Nanetti (online), Yevgeny Tsyganov and the band ME4TA, TERELYA, ARTEMIEV, Vladimir Lisovsky, Lev Lurie, Alyona Doletskaya, Vika Chuma, Marina
Archive · Books · Moscow · Education
Children at the First All-Union Congress of Soviet Writers, held from 17 August to 1 September 1934
A delegation of Pioneers addressed the Congress with a greeting. Among the various groups of participants were children brought to the Congress by Samuil Marshak, who delivered a report arguing that writing for children is harder than writing for adults. The children were a living example of the reading audience
Archive · Books · Moscow · People
At the Home of the Writer Anastasia Tsvetaeva, November 1987
Photo by Yury Rybchinsky Anastasia, the younger sister of Marina Tsvetaeva, also travelled a far from easy road. Her first husband, the chemical engineer Mauritius Mints, died of peritonitis only two years after the wedding, in the Crimea, at the house of Maximilian Voloshin, where they had gone after the
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On 31 August 1941, in evacuation at Yelabuga, Marina Tsvetaeva took her own life
On 31 August 1941, in evacuation at Yelabuga, Marina Tsvetaeva took her own life. That day her son Mur and the mistress of the house were sent off to clear a site for an airfield; she was left alone and hanged herself in the entrance passage. In the kitchen a
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Andrei Voznesensky in one of the churches of the city of Murom in 1982
Photo by Georgy Rozov