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📌 An exhibition of Boris Messerer's book illustrations at the Open Club gallery, until 24 March 📌 “Knight's Move. Viktor Shklovsky”, at the museum house “The First Dacha” in Peredelkino, until 26 April 📌 20 March: opening of an exhibition devoted to the descendants of Genghis Khan at the
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Photo by Lev Borodulin
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The First Dacha in Peredelkino is a new museum point on the village map, one you will want to return to. At present the exhibition at the First Dacha is centred on the figure of Viktor Shklovsky, with a detailed account of him: his life in Peredelkino, his relationships, connections
Architecture · Moscow · Society · Humour
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington itself, I remind you, was renamed, with the surname Trump appended, in late 2025 by decision of the centre's board of trustees, of which Trump is chairman
Faith · Moscow · Observations
A Moscow church invites visitors to recall the Slavonic numeral system. Until the eighteenth century, numbers in Russia were written with letters marked by a stroke, the "titlo", above them, on a scheme similar to the Roman notation. Numbers above 1,000 were written by placing a doubly
Books · Moscow · Mores · People
Nikolay Alexeyevich Nekrasov Nekrasov wrote these lines when he was quite young, at 33, while living at a dacha in Petrovsky Park near Moscow together with Botkin. Shortly before his death the poet would recall this verse and, dictating to his sister, would say: It was Fate's pleasure
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📌 Closing soon: the exhibition "Marc Chagall. The Joy of Earthly Gravity" at the Pushkin Museum, until 15 March 📌 Ivan Nenashev's exhibition "The Mind of Flowers" at the a—s—t—r—a gallery, until 9 April 📌 An exhibition of African photographers, "Dandies. A
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Viktor Akhlomov
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Born on 12 October 1969 in Leningrad. Graduated from a school of literature and history and from an art school in 1986. From 1987 to 1989 served in the Soviet Army at the Baikonur Cosmodrome. On returning from the army he began performing as a soloist in Sergey Kuryokhin’s
Art · Moscow · Observations
The monument is the work of the sculptor Vladimir Ivanov It was in fact put up as long ago as October 2025, but I somehow failed to look about me when I walked past TASS