Architecture · Moscow · Heritage
Would you like to watch another cultural heritage site in the centre of Moscow fall to ruin? Pavel Ogorodnikov has published on Twitter a photo report from one of the most epic buildings in the city: alas, now abandoned and dilapidated, the old Moscow Main Post Office, which in one
Monarchies · Museums · Heritage
The value of the treasures stolen from the Green Vault in Dresden is estimated at a billion dollars. Naturally, the stolen objects have no market price, but this is all the same one of the most audacious museum robberies of recent years. It has already been established that three sets
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Observations · Heritage · Society · Nature
A state of emergency has been declared in Venice: the water rose to 187 centimetres in recent days, 20 million euros have already been allocated to clear up after the flood, while the mayor puts the damage at 1 billion euros. ps I feel terribly sorry for the little rat
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Architecture · Faith · Art · Heritage
The baroque church of San Moisè, which John Ruskin called the clumsiest building in Venice, has been flooded. One of the chief treasures of the church, a wooden crucifix, among the few works in wood by the Italian sculptor Giuseppe Torretto, is floating in the water, and the pietà by
Architecture · Faith · Heritage · Society
The building of the Choral Synagogue of Mogilev, known as the Zukerman Synagogue, was erected in the late nineteenth century on the ruins of the burnt-out palace of the Catholic bishop Bohusz-Siestrzeńcewicz. Today it houses a sports hall. A memorial plaque on the building tells the history of
Architecture · Heritage · Society · Paris
Meanwhile in Paris, an angry debate is raging over the mayor, Anne Hidalgo, and her contentious decisions on urban improvement. Many are simply shocked by the new city benches, made of roughly hewn logs. Taken together with the installation of ungainly public lavatories, the removal of the railings around trees
Architecture · Observations · Heritage · Paris
In Paris, on the Place de la Bastille, such charming and very stylish little tiles have been set into the paving, recalling the historical monuments that once stood on this spot. How do you like French commemorative practices? I rather like them. Incidentally, in Moscow in the Prechistenka district, for
Museums · Heritage · Nature · Reportage
An inspection of the trees has confirmed the hypothesis of colleagues from the Pushkin museums that the park at Khmelita may well be a Masonic one. Every tree and its position means something, though these details will be worked out later; it would be very interesting to see the final
Museums · Heritage · Nature · Reportage
A manor park is a very complex organism, which needs not only care but sometimes a proper medical examination and treatment. Over the weekend a most interesting museum event took place: in my beloved Khmelita the park was given a check-up. It should be said that the park of
Architecture · Faith · London · Observations · Heritage
In the 1960s the English decided to build a new cathedral beside St Michael's in Coventry, bombed in 1940, right next to the ruins, so that neither the tragedy nor the grandeur of the former building should be forgotten. The old Coventry cathedral was once the largest and