Faith · Moscow · Observations · Society
Have you also noticed how little Easter symbolism there is in the city, and how little Easter programming on television, this year? And the few modest Easter decorations in the capital of the country with the largest Orthodox population in the world look particularly odd, considering that the New Year
Faith · Moscow · Observations · Education · Society
For the previous thirty years, a fifteen-minute procession of the cross got in the way of no traffic whatever. Nor do I recall any such restrictions being imposed on rallies and concerts, or on the mass festive and prayer gatherings of other faiths, running to many thousands of people
Archive · Geography · Maps · Moscow
In 1618 an engraving with a view of Moscow appeared in the six-volume atlas of the cities of the world, Civitates Orbis Terrarum. The atlas was compiled by the Cologne priest Georg Braun, beginning in 1572, and this was already the second map of Moscow in the edition. A
Architecture · Moscow · Education · People
Among the Moscow state gymnasia, the Fourth stood in a class of its own. It was a classical school of the highest rank, with Latin and Greek, and with the right of direct entry to Moscow University. Its teachers were men of uncommon gifts: the physicist Kraevich, whose textbook outlived
Moscow · Observations
Remember how it was at Zhenovach's? Why do people go to the theatre nowadays? Probably for the same reason that a besieged city goes on laying the table. Because a laid table is the last thing that separates us from those outside. The table stands in the middle
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📌 Exhibition “Legacy of an Era. Semyon Chuikov”: until 12 July, Tretyakov Gallery on Kadashevskaya The founder of Kyrgyz fine art: shepherds, mountain landscapes, “Daughter of Soviet Kyrgyzstan” and other canvases from the Tretyakov, the Russian Museum and the Kyrgyz National Museum. 📌 Exhibition “Beatrissa Sandomirskaya”: until 21 June, Pushkin State Museum
Architecture · Moscow · Museums · Mores
In 1918 the Council of People's Commissars allotted Lenin and his family a flat and a study in the Senate Palace within the Kremlin. More precisely, the layout of the third floor in the south-western part of the palace, on the side facing Senate Square, where the
Art · Moscow · Observations · Reportage
The Winzavod annual gathering of young artists from the market has turned into the Win-Win fair. A rather pleasant way to spend a day off. There are plenty of all sorts of young people, not yet spoiled by the word "art", waiting for you to come and
NB! · Architecture · Moscow · Society · People
Sergey Kuznetsov has left his post as Moscow's chief architect, which he had held since 2012. After almost 14 years in the position, he intends to turn to projects of his own
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Last night the Great Hall of the Conservatoire was sold out. The Nizhny Novgorod Opera and Ballet Theatre was marking its 90th anniversary, and did so on the country's foremost academic stage. The programme: Mahler's Fourth Symphony and Leonid Desyatnikov's Opera in a new
NB! · Architecture · Geography · Moscow · Heritage
A circular locomotive depot. One of these survives in Moscow, in the Komsomolskaya district; last autumn a graphic art fair was held there
Coming Up · Art · Moscow · Museums
An inspiring spring exhibition, "Larionov / Goncharova. The Beginning", has opened at the Pushkin Museum. It is the first to explore the earliest, pre-avant-garde period in the work of two outstanding figures, a couple of Russian art. The thoroughly Impressionist pastels and drawings by Larionov and Goncharova