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Science · Education · People · Saint Petersburg

In 1736 the Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences sent twelve talented young men to Europe, where they were to study languages, the technical and natural sciences, get to know European life and all that sort of thing

In 1736 the Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences sent twelve talented young men to Europe, where they were to study languages, the technical and natural sciences, get to know European life and all that sort of thing. Among these gifted students was the 25-year-old Mikhail Lomonosov, who studied

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The Kultura Television Channel

The Kultura television channel. Former Minister of Culture Shvydkoy reminds viewers that the Decameron was written during the plague of the 14th century. Are you serious? That is the eighth-form school syllabus

Cinema · Books · Education

A film about young people whose lives are unceremoniously invaded by world history

A film about young people whose lives are unceremoniously invaded by world history. Paul Verhoeven's "Soldier of Orange" (also known in Russian as "The Queen's Soldier"), 1977, is a classic of war cinema. Its heroes are four friends, all students at Leiden

Observations · Education · Society

I came across an interesting lecture on the university liberties of the Middle Ages on Theories and Practices

I came across an interesting lecture on the university liberties of the Middle Ages on Theories and Practices. Just what privileges did students and teachers enjoy? By the standards of the time, very weighty ones: for example, the right to be absent from their parish, since most students and teachers

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New Rules for Postgraduate Study Pass First Reading

New rules for postgraduate study have passed their first reading. Postgraduate study is to become once more the third level of higher education: postgraduates will enjoy the right to deferment from military service, will be able to claim a place in a hall of residence, and will receive a stipend

Interviews · Education · People

Galina Volchek entered the Moscow Art Theatre School-Studio at sixteen and spent the rest of her life in the theatre

In the decades she headed the Sovremennik, she dismissed only one actor, for failing to appear at a performance because he was engaged in a commercial touring production. Listen to Galina Borisovna tell this story and others herself on "Line of Life": https://tvkultura.ru/video/show/brand_

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Given that the plot of Donna Tartt's novel "The Secret History" unfolds at a provincial college in Vermont, I immediately wondered how such a remarkable course in Ancient Greek could have crystallised there

Given that the plot of Donna Tartt's novel "The Secret History" unfolds at a provincial college in Vermont, I immediately wondered how such a remarkable course in Ancient Greek could have crystallised there. Immersion in the classical world seemed a privilege of the chosen few, a

NB! · Observations · Education

do not dare forget your teachers, they worry about us and remember

Architecture · Moscow · Observations · Education · Humour

I hardly know how to comment on this Facebook post by the architect and former MARKHI professor Evgeny Ass

I hardly know how to comment on this Facebook post by the architect and former MARKHI professor Evgeny Ass. The gatehouse of MARKHI, which occupies the Volynsky-Vorontsov estate, has turned into this. The structure has undergone several transformations of late; I remember that not long ago it looked like

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A wave to all my lecturers at the Higher School who made us cram Excel

A wave to all my lecturers at the Higher School who made us cram Excel. Some 20% of the genetic studies published in leading scientific journals contain errors caused by the autoformatting settings in Microsoft Excel. You have surely run into it yourselves, when the programme swaps the data you

Moscow · Museums · Observations · Education

I am greatly impressed that the main building of RSUH on Miusskaya Square has opened a museum-workshop of Leonardo da Vinci, with models of his inventions that one may not merely touch but test: every mechanism is in working order…

I am greatly impressed that the main building of RSUH on Miusskaya Square has opened a museum-workshop of Leonardo da Vinci, with models of his inventions that one may not merely touch but test: every mechanism is in working order, except, of course, the bombard on a worm gear

Archaeology · Books · Observations · Science · Education

Friends!

Friends! My book is out! It is a course of study on the peopling of the Americas, on which I worked for two years and which sets out exhaustive information on where the first people to reach the American continent came from, by what route, what drove them and what