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The Magnificent Léon Bakst from the Russian Museum Collection at the GES-2 Exhibition

One of the key works of the Silver Age artist Léon Bakst, a meditation on the fate of the classical heritage amid the social and political catastrophes of the early twentieth century. Painted after the Russo-Japanese War and the revolution of 1905-1907, the picture gave expression to the

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A new selection of Moscow's main exhibition events

📌 16 December: opening of the exhibition "Beautiful Monsters", devoted to exotic animals in the work of European artists, at the Pushkin Museum, until 1 March 📌 18 December: opening of the exhibition "Legacy of an Era. Mikhail Savitsky" at the Tretyakov Gallery on Kadashevskaya Embankment, until 1

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A Salon at the Arkhangelskoye Estate in the 1890s

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My favourite monument to Leo Tolstoy stands in the courtyard of his museum on Prechistenka

My favourite monument to Leo Tolstoy stands in the courtyard of his museum on Prechistenka. It is the work of Sergey Merkurov, who, incidentally, took the death mask of Lev Nikolayevich. The monument, completed in 1913, could not be erected in Moscow: the Black Hundreds threatened to blow it up.

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Exhibition "Marc Chagall

The exhibition is called "Marc Chagall. The Joy of Earthly Gravity" and is held in the main building of the Pushkin Museum. Two halls and the atrium bring together both Chagall's best-known works and rare, little-known pieces such as portraits of members of his

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Thanks to the Russian Museum for "The Red Jew"

Thanks to the Russian Museum for "The Red Jew". A Chagall exhibition has opened at the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts

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I cannot say why, but for me Sergey Sharshun's self-portrait from the New Tretyakov collection is Harold, hiding his pain

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The customary round-up of exhibitions in Moscow's galleries and museums

📌 Closing soon: the exhibition “Icons of the Soviet Period” at the Izmailovo estate, until 22 December 📌 10 December: opening of the exhibition “George Cohen. Theory of Shadow” at the pop/off/art gallery, until 23 January 📌 Solo exhibition “Metapolis” by the artist Anton Chumak at MMOMA, until 1 February 📌 11

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I almost forgot to share pictures from the new open storage display at the Garage Museum

Little by little we are learning what exactly one of the finest collections of contemporary art in the country looks like. There is much that one will not see in the New Tretyakov, for instance. It is worth going if only because, when the display is changed, the exhibits will

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On 11 April 1908, Good Friday, the most famous Moscow flood began, inundating a quarter of the city, an area of 16 square kilometres

A sharp thaw after the snowiest winter in 18 years filled the Moskva River and its tributaries, and in just twenty-four hours the water level rose by more than 7.5 metres. Rain was falling and a strong wind was blowing besides, so the water kept on rising, and

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With the death of Count Nikolai Petrovich Sheremetev, Dmitry Nikolayevich, his seven-year-old son by the former serf actress Praskovya Gorbunova-Zhemchugova, who died soon after the birth, was left a complete orphan

The boy's upbringing was taken on by the Dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna, while as guardians of the little Sheremetev's person and of his fortune she appointed the State Secretary Dmitry Petrovich Troshchinsky and the Actual Privy Councillor and Senator Mikhail Ivanovich Danaurov, whose family settled in

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Shall I tell you what a fair of intellectual literature is?

Shall I tell you what a fair of intellectual literature is? City dwellers, worn out by bustle, obligations and a dusk that begins at four in the afternoon, come to Gostiny Dvor to sigh a little in the queue at the entrance, jostle by the cloakroom and, at last, plunge