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The Palme d'Or at Cannes goes to "It Was Just an Accident" by the Iranian director Jafar Panahi
The jury of the main competition this year was chaired by the French actress Juliette Binoche.
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The Museum of the East has lent unique materials from the excavations of the Khorezm Archaeological and Ethnographic Expedition for the exhibition "Neither Together Nor Apart" at GES-2, on the link between archaeology and modernism and on how art can make
The Khorezm Expedition worked from 1937 to 1991 and was tied to the Soviet programme of irrigating the deserts of Central Asia. The exhibition shows, on the one hand, the contribution of Russian scholars to the development of the Central Asian region and, on the other, advances the perennial theme
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In the memoirs of Maurice Georges Paléologue, French Ambassador to Russia, there is a curious recollection of meeting the well-known linguist Robert Edmund Gauthiot, who explored the Russian territories of the Pamirs together with the young Russian schola
The story runs as follows. In 1914 Zarubin, as a linguist and ethnographer, was asked to accompany the French explorer to the Pamirs, the journey being paid for by the Russian Committee for the Study of Central and Eastern Asia. For the occasion Zarubin learned the Tajik language and was
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Back to exhibition reviews. At the New Tretyakov Gallery, the exhibition "The Road to the East. Russian Artists in Central Asia" runs until the end of September. The display tells of the place of Eastern motifs in the work of Russian modernist artists. The interest of Russian culture
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Graffiti of a ship from the Cathedral of Saint Sophia in Constantinople
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Churchill, Stalin and Roosevelt lead the vanquished Hitler, with snakes growing from his shoulders, in the wake of Kaveh, the mythical blacksmith who rose against the tyrant Zahhak
Churchill, Stalin and Roosevelt lead the vanquished Hitler, with snakes growing from his shoulders, in the wake of Kaveh, the mythical blacksmith who rose against the tyrant Zahhak. Goebbels is tied to the horse's tail. During the Second World War, Iran saw a series of propaganda posters based
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The Ruins of Persepolis, Photographed around 1923
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Beloved Jambul
Bust of the Kazakh akyn Zhambyl Zhabayev, red sandstone, by the sculptor Ivan Andreyev, 1939. From the exhibition "The Road to the East. Russian Artists in Central Asia" at the New Tretyakov Gallery on Krymsky Val. Andreyev was a pupil of Iosif Chaikov and Alexander Matveyev, and was
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The Rhinoceros from Iran, as the Young Merchant Jean Chardin Remembered It While Travelling from Paris to Persia in the 1670s
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Saint Gabriel (Urgebadze) of Georgia burns a twelve-metre portrait of the godless Lenin during the May Day demonstration in Tbilisi in 1965
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View of Yerevan, from "Chardin's Travels in Persia", undertaken by the merchant Jean Chardin in 1666
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Reading Professor Ivan Ivanovich Zarubin's diary of his journey to the Pamirs in the summer of 1914
I am reading the diary of Professor Ivan Ivanovich Zarubin about his journey to the Pamirs in the summer of 1914. He describes sailing down a mountain river on a raft made of inflated goatskins. It brought to mind the Neo-Assyrian relief of the 8th century BC from the