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Cruiser Admiral Kuznetsov leaves Sevastopol in 1991, and the series “Istrebiteli”

How the Admiral Kuznetsov Went North. At about nine in the evening on 1 December 1991, Vice-Admiral Yury Ustimenko, First Deputy Commander of the Northern Fleet, came aboard the heavy aircraft-carrying cruiser "Admiral of the Fleet of the Soviet Union Kuznetsov" in Sevastopol. He ordered the

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Moscow – Leningrad: Something Different

The Seventies are arranged in a rather unusual way in Soviet culture. The Thaw was over, the euphoria had evaporated, and it became clear to certain people that print runs in the millions and vast auditoriums no longer loomed on the horizon, while large exhibitions would be of whatever format

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This week's five exhibitions on time, and on how the living and the man-made deceive it

This week's five exhibitions are about time, and about how the living and the man-made deceive it. There is an artistic dynasty across four generations, newsreel film that stopped the moment, the faces of the theatre, deception as an engine of evolution and, to make up the

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Five exhibitions of 2026, from Renaissance Madonnas to a Viktor Kalinin retrospective

The Annunciation is the earliest good news in European culture, a message that came true in the flesh. This week, five exhibitions on a promise and its fate: an image made flesh, sketches for a church that was never built, a colossus shown through the most fragile of materials, and

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Seven exhibitions of 2026 on Russian heritage, emigration and the fragility of collections

Herzen was finishing "My Past and Thoughts" in London, and visiting compatriots scolded him for having long since left Russia and forgotten it too well. The émigré is always charged with forgetfulness, though it is usually the homeland that does the forgetting. This week, in the rubric of

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“Oh, how I feel the accumulated burden of poisoned nights and bitter-sweet days!” wrote Annensky in “The Longing to Return” in 1909, and ever since the burden has gone on accumulating, though the vessels in which it is customarily kept keep changing

“Oh, how I feel the accumulated burden of poisoned nights and bitter-sweet days!” wrote Annensky in “The Longing to Return” in 1909, and ever since the burden has gone on accumulating, though the vessels in which it is customarily kept keep changing. This week our rubric on where to

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Five exhibitions of coins and medals in museums this week

Small-scale plastic art is seldom the star of a museum display. Yet for how much these works can tell us about the history and culture of a country, few things can compare. This week's recommendations are devoted to exhibitions of coins and medals that deserve particular attention,

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My last remaining nerve cell, in the form of a falling column from the Colonnade grove at Versailles, reminds us of our regular feature, where for the third year running we have been planning the week's leisure in Moscow and other cultured cities

🌆On 21 April the Art Moscow fair opens, in case anyone still has money left for art. 🧱From 21 April the Shchusev Museum of Architecture is showing the paintings of Nadezhda Krestinina 👑From 21 April to 5 July the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts continues its 25-year tradition

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The universal favourite, the rubric, is back with you, and this week we are heading to:

🦖The solo exhibition by Rinat Volgami, "Wind", at Gallery 11.12 🌎Dani Pirogov's exhibition "Light Comes from Underground" at the Futuro gallery 🩺The contemporary art exhibition "Together" at Skolkovo 🏺The exhibition "Vladimir Salnikov and Nina Kotel. Two" at the Blar

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A new selection of recent exhibitions and openings in Moscow this week

📌 Exhibition “Legacy of an Era. Semyon Chuikov”: until 12 July, Tretyakov Gallery on Kadashevskaya The founder of Kyrgyz fine art: shepherds, mountain landscapes, “Daughter of Soviet Kyrgyzstan” and other canvases from the Tretyakov, the Russian Museum and the Kyrgyz National Museum. 📌 Exhibition “Beatrissa Sandomirskaya”: until 21 June, Pushkin State Museum

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In the Where to Go rubric: a new selection of Moscow exhibitions

📌 26 March: opening of the exhibition “Family: My Heritage” on the Benois and Morozov dynasties, until 30 April Museum of Moscow 📌 26 March: opening of the exhibition “Art in the Russian Backwoods: The Oriental Collection of Dmitry Burylin”, until 24 May Museum of Oriental Art 📌 The exhibition “Formulae of Eternity”

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A New Selection of Exhibitions in Moscow

📌 An exhibition of Boris Messerer's book illustrations at the Open Club gallery, until 24 March 📌 “Knight's Move. Viktor Shklovsky”, at the museum house “The First Dacha” in Peredelkino, until 26 April 📌 20 March: opening of an exhibition devoted to the descendants of Genghis Khan at the