Museums · Heritage · Mores · People
Chekhov bought Melikhovo after a long search for suitable property in other regions: he came across an advertisement in a newspaper and all but sight unseen decided to take it. It was the first house of their own, one might say, since the days of serfdom, and the whole large
Museums · Heritage · People · Nature
Not many trees that witnessed the Chekhov era have survived at Melikhovo. There are, for example, two Berlin poplars planted by the keeper and organiser of the local household, the father of the family, the former serf Pavel Yegorovich Chekhov. The peace of the two-hundred-and-fifty-year-old
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Today we travelled with the intellectual Club 418 to Anton Pavlovich Chekhov's favourite estate, Melikhovo, which became the true family nest of the Chekhovs and gave the world dozens of works of Chekhovian classic. This year the Chekhov Museum at Melikhovo celebrates its 80th anniversary, and Anton Pavlovich
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At Melikhovo, the Chekhov museum-reserve outside Moscow, the writer's garden and kitchen garden have been recreated. Anton Pavlovich adored farming, read horticultural and market-gardening journals and pamphlets without cease, and was proud of his agricultural achievements. In the kitchen garden right beneath the windows of Chekhov&
Architecture · Museums · Heritage · Paris · People
A miniature replica of the Bastille with eight towers, made from stone from the Bastille's wall. An original souvenir devised by a man who styled himself the demolisher of the Bastille. A bustling contractor, engaged in pulling down the Bastille before any public debate had formed around the
Art · Heritage · Mores · People
Remember the grannies and grandpas who build marvellous gardens in their yards and front gardens, with ladybirds, swans made of tyres, towers of plastic bottle tops, toys, figurines, waterfalls and other magic? People usually pass such creations by with, at best, an indulgent smile and a moment's attention.
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Grandma Tessie Prisbrey and her bottle village: 16 monumental structures of glass, cement and plastic fished out of the rubbish. Simi Valley, California, USA.
Architecture · Art · Moscow · Heritage
Not exactly a treasure, one might say, but still a fairly rare mosaic of a longship and the Kremlin on an ordinary prefab block in Moscow at 22 Yablochkova Street. The building is being demolished under the renovation programme, while activists from among the residents of the Butyrsky district are
NB! · Architecture · Moscow · Heritage
A splendid cast-iron post of the mid-nineteenth century in Bryusov Lane, all that remains of the old estate that once stood on this spot. Only recently the post was carefully restored by the lads from “Vspomnit Vse”, for which they have our gratitude and respect
Architecture · Observations · Heritage
Once again the question hangs in the air: should monuments of ancient history be refreshed, and to what degree? The west frieze of the Parthenon has been restored. This is how it looks now. What is the difficulty with marble antiquities? Marble is destroyed by acid, and acid rain, the
Coming Up · Heritage · Science · Nature · Saint Petersburg
Incidentally, since 2 July one of Russia's first parks, the Arboretum Park of the Peter the Great Botanical Garden, has been open on a trial basis. The oldest trees in the regular part of the park, laid out in the 1820s, are two hundred years old, but the
Architecture · Moscow · Observations · Heritage
A fairy-tale terem on the Prechistenskaya Embankment, the Pertsova tenement house for gifted artists, is now in the use of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. As you can see, one of the landmark buildings of early twentieth-century Moscow is not in the best of states: tiles keep dropping