NB! · Archive · Moscow · Observations
Children sunbathing near Arbatskaya metro station in the 1960s. Consider how much more human and simple life in Moscow was sixty years ago. Today the city is deprived of such ordinary joys, yet it is drowning in formal conveniences
Architecture · Art · Moscow · Observations
But a cursory glance through the catalogues reveals that this is not the only likeness of the disgraced monument on the artificial island at the confluence of the Moskva River and the Drainage Canal, not far from the Bersenevskaya Embankment. On the same occasion a whole series of similar medals
Archive · Books · Moscow · People
A poster for the evening held by Vasily Kamensky in memory of Mayakovsky at the Bolshoi Theatre. Vasily Kamensky was a Futurist poet and a close friend of Mayakovsky for more than ten years; after the latter's death he published several books about the poet's life.
Faith · Art · Moscow · Museums · Heritage
In the fifteenth century the icon stood in the iconostasis of the Trinity Cathedral of the Lavra, founded by St Sergius of Radonezh. After the Revolution it was removed from the monastery, and in 1929, after nine years spent in the museum at Zagorsk, it was transferred to the Tretyakov
Art · Moscow · Museums · Saint Petersburg
The subject is a Russian peasant whom the invaders meant to conscript into Napoleon's army, and whose hand they branded with the letter N; whereupon, before the astonished eyes of the intruders, he hacked off his branded hand. The Roman Scaevola, that is to say the Left-Handed,
Architecture · Moscow · Heritage · Society
The building at 18 Kosygin Street had been on the list of newly identified monuments since 2005. In March 2025 Mosgornasledie (the Moscow heritage authority) declined to enter it in the register of cultural heritage sites, and two months later it was pulled down. It was, to all intents and
Architecture · Faith · Art · Moscow · Museums
The painting "Footballer" by Alexander Deineka, which can be seen at the artist's exhibition at the Tretyakov Gallery on Kadashevskaya, depicts the bell tower of the Church of John the Baptist in Yaroslavl, the very one that appears on the 1,000-rouble banknote. The 45-
NB! · Moscow · Observations
A floating drilling rig on a pontoon raft on the Vodootvodny Canal, on the Bolotnaya Embankment side, between the Patriarshy Bridge (closed) and the Maly Kamenny Bridge. What are they drilling for? I have grown curious.
Architecture · Art · Moscow · Museums · Heritage
In the sculpture courtyard of the A.V. Shchusev Museum of Architecture, the open restoration of the memorial monument with the bust of Catherine II, created by the sculptor Vasily Ivanovich Demut-Malinovsky in 1834, has come to an end. The monument is an allegorical sculptural group on a single
Coming Up · Moscow · Pop Culture · Reportage
Today at the Moscow Variety Theatre the first chords sounded of one of the most anticipated premieres of this autumn: a press conference was held there to present the musical “Waltz-Boston”. There was as yet no orchestra and no full glare of the footlights, but there were sketches of
NB! · Archive · Architecture · Moscow · Heritage
Architecture · Moscow · Museums
The exhibition comprises 16 halls devoted to the history of all the Cossack hosts and Guards formations of the Russian Empire. Among the 800 exhibits are a numismatic collection, orders and decorations, weapons, uniforms, banners, paintings, graphic art, sculpture, archival documents and maps.