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On the Subject of Moscow's Closed Bookshops
On the subject of Moscow's closed bookshops. Akademkniga on Vavilov Street did not survive the realities of life in the 2020s. Many will probably remember what a shock its closure was in 2019, later briefly interrupted by the shop's reopening. But in 2021, incidentally the Year
NB! · Books · Moscow · Observations
The Writers' Bookshop, opened on Kuznetsky Most in 1934 and untimely closed in 2022, is back in action!
Yes, it is now a somewhat different shop: a new style, a new interior, and no more second-hand department under the ceiling, but the old crystal chandelier has survived, and a cosy courtyard has appeared. It is gratifying that books will go on living within these walls
The Golden Age · Archive · Moscow · Mores
1954: village cows grazing in Moscow's Cheryomushki district
Photo by Lev Borodulin
Coming Up · Moscow · Education · People
After Boris Yukhananov's death, the director Alexey German Jr. recalled that in his youth Yukhananov used to convince beautiful women that he was a prince from a faraway land, and the women believed him
After Boris Yukhananov's death, the director Alexey German Jr. recalled that in his youth Yukhananov used to convince beautiful women that he was a prince from a faraway land, and the women believed him. The theatre critic Marina Davydova quoted a phrase with which Yukhananov himself explained his
Coming Up · Art · Moscow · People
On 30 September the Stanislavsky Electrotheatre will mark the birthday of its artistic director Boris Yukhananov, who died a year ago
On 30 September the Stanislavsky Electrotheatre will mark the birthday of its artistic director Boris Yukhananov, who died a year ago. The programme of the evening, titled "Picnic. Requiem", includes the opening of an exhibition and the presentation of the Foundation and of the festival "Boris Yukhananov
The Golden Age · Coming Up · Art · Books · Moscow · People
Until 31 December the Galeev Gallery is showing an exhibition of Alexey Fyodorovich Pakhomov, Leningrad graphic artist, book illustrator, painter and porcelain master
Until 31 December the Galeev Gallery is showing an exhibition of Alexey Fyodorovich Pakhomov, Leningrad graphic artist, book illustrator, painter and porcelain master. The curators, Ildar Galeev and Kasia Denisevich, have for the first time tried to bring together what is usually scattered among museums and family archives: paintings, sketches
NB! · Architecture · Moscow · Observations · Humour
I fail to understand why Moscow needed a monument to Luzhkov, when we already have the Nautilus shopping centre, the Parus residential complex and the Patriarch residential complex?
Archive · Moscow · Pop Culture · Nature
Lyudmila Gurchenko with a falcon in one of Moscow's apple orchards, 1991
Photo by Igor Gnevashev
Art · Coming Up · Moscow · Museums
The All-Russian Museum of Decorative Art Shows Vrubel from the Side Least Known
The All-Russian Museum of Decorative Art shows Vrubel from the side by which he is least known. The exhibition runs from 18 September 2026 to 17 February 2027 and is timed to the artist's 170th anniversary. The conception is built around ceramics. The visitor learns that for
Moscow · Architecture · Observations
A new pedestrian bridge along Bolotnaya Embankment
I forgot to mention that I have tested the new pedestrian bridge along Bolotnaya Embankment. I award it full marks: a pleasant refresh for the city's walking routes
Coming Up · Moscow · Art · Books
"A History of Black" at the Ekaterina Foundation
The Ekaterina Culture Foundation on Kuznetsky Most has opened an exhibition, "A History of Black". Its point of departure is the book by the French historian Michel Pastoureau, who for several decades has been writing biographies of colours and has already published volumes on blue, green, red and