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The Art Newspaper Russia Awards for 2024 Presented
The Art Newspaper Russia Awards for 2024 have been presented. The annual ceremony took place in the hall of the Pushkin Theatre, and I congratulate the whole team, the editorial board of the newspaper and, personally, Milena Orlova and Tatiana Sakhokia on this important event in Russian culture. The winners
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Anonymous art object of books instead of bricks at Samara Public Library in 2013
In early June 2013, on the 3rd if memory serves, this anonymous art object appeared outside the Samara Public Library. A section of masonry at the base of a column, with books in place of bricks. The object appeared early on Monday morning, and photographs of it quickly spread across
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Before taking his degrees in philosophy and theology, Pope Francis took a degree in food chemistry
Before taking his degrees in philosophy and theology, Pope Francis took a degree in food chemistry. The subject of food production, papal-style, is explored in the book “Tavola con Papa Francesco” (“A Table with Pope Francis”), “tavola” meaning the gathering around the table.
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Dostoevsky in “A Writer’s Diary” on modern Khlestakovs who lie without fear
Khlestakov, at least, lied and lied, yet still had a tiny fear, even as he lied, that he might be seized and thrown out on his ear. The Khlestakovs of today have no such fear and lie with perfect composure. All are composed, all are immeasurably vain, and surely that
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Saint Nicholas of Japan on the difference between dreaming of a task and doing it
When we dream of a task, we like it; once we have set about it, it is dreadfully tedious. And that is only natural: in our thoughts the task appears to us whole, with its success, its happy results and other blessings, but once we begin to do it... the
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The piety and virtues of Vladimir (no comma required!) compelled many sovereigns to send ambassadors to him: namely, from Stephen I, King of Hungary, Boleslav III, King of Bohemia, Boleslav I, King of Poland, Pope Sylvester II…
Nicely put: piety and virtues compelled many sovereigns to send ambassadors. And then Vladimir, having fortified his Realm with various strongholds and with the courage of the people he had enlightened, began to consider how he might establish peace among his children for all posterity, knowing that discord between brothers
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Ivan Shmelyov in “The Summer of the Lord” on Holy Saturday evening at home
Holy Saturday, evening. The house is quiet; everyone has lain down for a while before Matins. I creep into the drawing-room to see what is going on in the street. Few people about; they carry Easter cakes and kulichi in cardboard boxes. The wallpaper in the room is pink,
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Elena Molokhovets's Cookbook and Its Editions Since 1861
Traditional Kulich Recipes from Elena Molokhovets's 1866 Cookbook. The book "A Gift to Young Housewives, or A Means of Reducing Household Expenses" by Elena Ivanovna Molokhovets was the most famous and influential cookery book in nineteenth-century Russia. After its first edition in 1861 it went
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The devoted admirer of Russian culture and of the work of Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin, British actor Ralph Fiennes, who reads the Russian classics in the original, will stage "Eugene Onegin" at the Paris Opera
The devoted admirer of Russian culture and of the work of Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin, British actor Ralph Fiennes, who reads the Russian classics in the original, will stage "Eugene Onegin" at the Paris Opera. The production will be conducted by Semyon Bychkov, with singers including Bogdan Volkov, Boris
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A Bibliophile's Dream: Cicero's Selected Letters and Speeches, Illustrated!
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Futuristic Beehives from an Eighteenth-Century Book
Futuristic beehives from an eighteenth-century book. Whenever I look at pictures like these, I have the feeling that some two hundred and fifty years ago humanity took a wrong turning somewhere, and I look at pictures like these constantly