Architecture · Heritage · Pop Culture · Saint Petersburg
Going to the railway station for a symphony concert? What? In nineteenth-century Saint Petersburg this was quite commonplace: society gathered for balls and concerts at the Pavlovsk Music Station, which was built “for the refuge and pleasure of the public” by Franz Anton von Gerstner, the builder of the
Art · Moscow · Observations · Heritage
Quietly and without idle applause, a great date in world theatrical history has passed: the Academic Children's Musical Theatre named after Natalia Sats has turned 55. It is the first professional musical theatre for children in the world, a theatre that for the first time in history devoted
Architecture · Faith · Art · Heritage
In Suzdal, the historic mosaic "Christ Enthroned" is promised restoration in 2021 on the façade of the Dmitry Pozharsky memorial chapel of 1885, built from public donations at the Monastery of Saint Euthymius and destroyed in 1933. When the chapel was rebuilt in 2009, the image of the
Architecture · Faith · Museums · Observations · Heritage · Mores
Visited the town of Volokolamsk, one of the oldest in the Moscow Region, with its ancient kremlin on a 17-metre rise on the left bank of the little River Gorodnya, where the year of foundation (in fact, of first mention) is laid out on the slope: 1136. Inside the
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Residents of the thirteen-storey Academy of Sciences of the USSR staff block on Dmitry Ulyanov Street urge attention to the construction of a metro line right beneath their buildings. This particular building, dating from 1957 and executed in the style of late Stalinist Empire, is famous as the home
Archaeology · Observations · Heritage
A view over Taman Bay and medieval foundations from the height of the cultural layer at the Hermonassa-Tmutarakan site. At present work is under way on only a small part of the monument; in places it has been lost to landslips, elsewhere it has gone under water, and here
Architecture · The East · Observations · Heritage
"A Turkish fortress, far from first-class but politically most pernicious, Anapa demanded of the Russian state such a number of military campaigns, by army and fleet alike, as no other enemy fortress, even of stronger construction, ever called forth. Some four times it was blown up until completely
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The first is addressed to the Minister of Culture, Olga Lyubimova, and to the presidential adviser on culture, Vladimir Tolstoy. In it, specialists in the preservation of cultural heritage report (though this is common knowledge anyway) the catastrophic, critical state of the sector, which they describe as "in essence
Museums · Observations · Heritage · People
Early this morning came the sad news: in her 81st year there passed away a remarkable person, a living legend of the Russian museum world, an outstanding, cultured, devoted and tirelessly active champion of Russian culture, Natalya Nikolayevna Gramolina, who had worked at the Polenovo estate museum since 1970 and
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The Rijksmuseum and the Museum of World Cultures of the Netherlands intend to part with exhibits acquired during colonial conquests: at the prompting of the Council for Culture, the museums have declared their readiness to return to their homelands works of art, jewels and antiquities that were illegally removed. To