Faith · Art · Moscow · Museums · Observations
Merry Christmas! Heavenly grace, happiness and the light of the Star of Bethlehem to you all! Always strive towards the perfection of the Lord, and remember that there is no Saviour but Christ! Ilya Repin, The Nativity of Christ, 1890. State Tretyakov Gallery
Art · Moscow · Museums
Alexander Vinogradov and Vladimir Dubossarsky, gift of the artists to the Tretyakov Gallery
Listings · Moscow · Coming Up · Art · Museums
📌 Closing soon: the exhibition "The Road to the Avant-Garde: Dialogues of Artists in the Journal 'A-Ya'" at the Zotov Centre, until 18 January 📌 Closing soon: the exhibition "Marina Bessonova's Choice" at the Pushkin Museum, until 18 January 📌 Closing soon: the
Art · Moscow · Museums · Observations · Nature
Visited the exhibition "Arctic. Pole of Colour" at the Tretyakov Gallery on Kadashevskaya, devoted to images of the Far North in Russian art. The display is rather interesting: there are Arctic landscapes, motifs from the art of the peoples of the North, and local artists. Unusually, it also
Moscow · People · Pop Culture
Ernest Beaux, a descendant of French émigrés in Russia, became after the Revolution a Russian émigré in France. From the end of the nineteenth century Ernest Beaux worked at the venerable perfumery of Alphonse Rallet in Moscow, on Vyatskaya Street. In 1907 he became technical director of the Rallet factory,
Archive · Monarchies · Moscow · Society
The administering of the oath will continue from the 20th day of December, to persons of the male sex of every rank and station, other than state peasants and the serf peasants and servants of landowners, for which purpose all churches will be open after the Liturgy From the collection
Listings · Moscow · Coming Up · Art · Museums
📌 Closing soon. The exhibition “Yakov Chernikhov. An Image of the Future. Architectural Fantasies of the Russian Avant-Garde” at the Jewish Museum, until 11 January 📌 The exhibition “From the Patriotic War to the Decembrists. Icons, Graphic Art and Decorative Objects” at the Andrei Rublev Museum, until 1 March 📌 The exhibition
NB! · Art · Moscow · Museums · Observations
Aristocracy · Archive · Art · Moscow · Museums
Silhouettes of the Nyryshkin family at an exhibition on the Decembrists. Moscow, 1850. Most remarkable of all, every sitter is identified by name: Anastasia Yakovlevna, Evdokia Mikhailovna, the Abbess Maria, Varvara Alexandrovna, Rachel; in the middle row, Nikolai Alexandrovich, Yakov Alexandrovich, Annette, Kirill Alexandrovich, Mikhail Alexandrovich; in the bottom row,
NB! · Archive · Cinema · Moscow · Education
In this photograph from the early 1960s: students of the Moscow Art Theatre School-Studio. In the front row Vera Alentova is easy to recognise; in the back row one can make out Andrey Myagkov, along with Vsevolod Abdulov, Gemma Osmolovskaya, Yelena Odintsova and Rogvold Sukhoverko
NB! · Cinema · Moscow · Society · Pop Culture
Architecture · Moscow · Museums · Observations · Heritage
Following a recent expert appraisal, the condition of the building has been judged unsatisfactory. The museum's director, Yelena Pronicheva, expressed the hope of beginning work on a renovation project for the New Tretyakov Gallery next year. What on earth? It's a perfectly good building, Soviet quality