The East · Observations · Heritage · Society
Every year Greece holds a memorial ceremony honouring its heroic forebears, the participants of the revolution of 1821, also known as the Greek War of Independence from the Ottoman Empire. The country even has clubs of descendants of the fighters for freedom. The ceremony takes place at the memorial necropolis
Museums · Observations · Heritage · Mores
Yesterday I witnessed a flagrant incident: a society lady, moreover one connected with the museum community, twice knocked down barriers in a house museum, pushing her way into a roped-off dining room to photograph the furniture at closer range, and after brazenly walking into the area cordoned off from
NB! · Architecture · Faith · Heritage · Paris
Architecture · Art · Museums · Observations · Heritage · Paris
I have a great many complaints about the municipal improvement of Paris; my heart aches at the antics of the luckless Anne Hidalgo. Versailles, by contrast, as a near and respected province, has been very fortunate, both in the status quo of its historic precincts and in the preservation of
Architecture · Faith · Moscow · Observations · Heritage
One of Moscow's most beautiful churches is the Church of the Hieromartyr Clement, Pope of Rome, in Zamoskvorechye, built in 1762. It is a great pity that the interior has undergone a reconstruction-style restoration, but this does not diminish the grandeur of the decoration. In Soviet times
NB! · Moscow · Heritage · Society
The Vakhtangov Theatre celebrated its centenary on 14 November. In memory of the jubilee, the venerable Vakhtangovites each received a piece of the theatre's historic curtain
NB! · Observations · Heritage · Humour
Architecture · Moscow · Heritage · Nature
Three Merlons of the Moscow Kremlin Wall Collapsed in Today's Storm. This is not the first time the merlons of the Kremlin wall have come down. During the storm in the summer of 1998, several of them were likewise destroyed by falling trees. In all, the wall is
Architecture · Faith · Heritage
One of the oldest monasteries in Russia, founded, if the hagiographic literature is to be believed, in the first third of the eleventh century, is the Monastery of Saints Boris and Gleb in the town of Torzhok. No buildings earlier than the seventeenth century survive on its grounds; it is
NB! · Archaeology · Architecture · Heritage
NB! · Architecture · Moscow · Observations · Heritage
The white-stone foundation of the Kitay-gorod wall, in the underground passage at the metro exit towards Zaryadye. In its day, in the sixteenth century, Kitay-gorod was one of the mightiest Russian fortresses: on a wall six to seven metres thick, two teams of horses could pass each
Art · Heritage · Society · Humour
On Sunday morning a new monument to Napoleon appeared in Rouen: on a bicycle, in a worn tracksuit, Air Maxes and Lacoste, in the colours of a food courier's uniform, and in a Napoleonic bicorne. The art object has been installed on the plinth of the real monument