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Russian eclectic pseudo-Baroque strikes straight to the heart. Look at these cheerful and severe features of the Petrovskaya Agricultural Academy on the grounds of the old Petrovsko-Razumovskoye estate! The convex Finnish glass ordered to the design of the architect Benois has survived to this day. One is tempted,
London · Monarchies · Education · Society
Yesterday, at the opening of the parliamentary session, Queen Elizabeth mentioned in her speech a bill on the protection of free speech in connection with the rise of "cancel culture", owing to which many people have lost the ability to speak out, in particular on university campuses, on
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Moscow State University is to receive 165 million, Saint Petersburg State University 278.5 million, RANEPA 380 million, the Glazunov Academy 100 million, universities under the Ministry of Science and Higher Education 1.2 billion, those under the Ministry of Health 867 million, those under the Ministry of Agriculture 666
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The Museum of the Moscow Art Theatre continues its parade of VKhUTEMAS exhibitions. At the Stanislavsky House-Museum in Leontyevsky Lane, "Lessons of VKhUTEMAS" opened today. The focus is on the work of VKhUTEMAS graduates Ariadna Arendt and her first and second husbands, Meer Aizenshtadt and Anatoly Grigoryev.
Architecture · Moscow · Museums · Observations · Education
At the Shchusev Museum of Architecture, a long-awaited major exhibition devoted to the Architecture Faculty of VKhUTEMAS. Who, if not MUAR, should show the genuine masterpieces of the Vkhutemas students, and at last it has come to pass. Moreover, this project looks far more advantageous than the exhibition on
NB! · Art · Moscow · Museums · Education
Lenin in the VKhUTEMAS hostel on 25 February 1921, arguing with the students about Futurism, Mayakovsky and the future of art. Behind him stands Nadezhda Krupskaya in a pale blue dress. A very beautiful work by Alexey Sotnikov, 1965, from a very rich exhibition marking the centenary of VKhUTEMAS
Cinema · Moscow · Education · People
How chance intervened in the life of Volodya Nemolyayev, a humble clerk and graduate of the Lomonosov Technical School (formerly the Imperial Komissarov School). Meyerhold presented the nimble GUM employee with a complimentary pass to any ten performances, and the young man fell wholeheartedly in love with the theatre and
Architecture · Moscow · Heritage · Education
In the courtyard of the Institute of History and Archives on Nikolskaya Street (remember that Gothic blue façade with the unicorn, the lion and the spires?) there is a small building in the Russian style, a terem. In the days of the Print Yard, the terem housed the proofreading workshop
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The Italian state will acquire Umberto Eco's library from his family and hand it over to the University of Bologna. Almost five years have passed since the death of the writer and philosopher. Italy's Ministry of Culture has signed an agreement with the scholar's
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The very room in which Catherine of Aragon, who to her last day called herself Queen of England, the first wife of Henry VIII, died on 7 January 1536 is now the office of the headmaster of the prestigious Kimbolton boarding school. So if the queen's ghost does
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You will, of course, see for yourselves that we are having an incredible number of very bad news items from the State Duma these days. Today amendments to the law “On Education” on the control of any educational activity were passed in the first reading. The appalling bill proposes to
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In case anyone else fancies making a New Year card in the spirit of "Pandemic go away! Wealth come!", no commas are needed, since names of persons and things used with the imperative in the sense of a wish ("let") are not forms of address. By