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The Art Newspaper has compiled its ranking of the most visited museums and exhibitions of 2024, available at the link
The top ten most visited museums in the country looks like this: 1. Peterhof 2. Tsarskoye Selo 3. Saint Isaac's Cathedral 4. Russian Museum 5. Hermitage 6. Tretyakov Gallery 7. Tsaritsyno 8. Museum of the History of Saint Petersburg 9. Museum of the World Ocean (Kaliningrad) 10. Island-
Art · Moscow
A Previously Unknown Painting by Viktor Vasnetsov, "The Boyar", Goes Under the Hammer in Moscow
Viktor Vasnetsov's painting "The Boyar" has been valued at 27 million roubles. For more than a hundred years the work was kept in the private collection of the heirs of the astronomer and collector Avenir Yakovkin. The auction will take place on 8 June. We shall
NB! · Moscow · Observations
The Sky over Moscow ❤️
Archaeology · Moscow · Museums
Specialists complete restoration and scholarly study of a hoard of sixteenth-century copper coins
Specialists have completed the restoration and scholarly study of a hoard of sixteenth-century copper coins. It was found by the capital's archaeologists on Bolshaya Tatarskaya Street. Archaeological investigations were carried out here at several excavation sites at once in 2023–2024. An important part of the find
Faith · Moscow · Education · Humour
Time to Read the Akathists!
The Bauman University student mailing list, as ever, is on top form
Coming Up · Art · Moscow
Today on the Historic Stage of the Bolshoi Theatre: the premiere of the revised version of Rodion Shchedrin's ballet "The Little Humpbacked Horse", after the fairy tale of the same name by Pyotr Yershov
The ballet "The Little Humpbacked Horse" was first staged in 1864 on the stage of the Imperial Theatre in Saint Petersburg. The production was subsequently revived many times at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow over the years. In 1960 came the premiere of a new version of the
Architecture · Books · Moscow · Observations · Reportage
Only in Moscow could this happen: you stroll along a boulevard of an evening and find yourself at an open meeting with a writer
Only in Moscow could this happen: you stroll along a boulevard of an evening and find yourself at an open meeting with a writer. Yesterday that is precisely what befell me. Passing the monument to Sholokhov, I heard Alexandr Tsypkin say something like "what if the cultural capital is
Archive · Books · Moscow · Saint Petersburg
Stocktaking at the Bookshop of the A. Suvorin Partnership
Stocktaking at the Bookshop of the A. Suvorin Partnership on Nevsky Prospect in Saint Petersburg in the early 1900s. Photograph by Karl Bulla. In Moscow, Suvorin's shop stood on Nikolskaya Street and later on Neglinnaya Street. Suvorin took up publishing in 1872 with the issue of a universal
Moscow · Observations · Society · Saint Petersburg
Ever wondered why Moscow has a mayor, while Saint Petersburg has a governor?
The titles of the highest officials in the constituent entities of the Russian Federation are governed by regional legislation. Both Moscow and Saint Petersburg are constituent entities of the Russian Federation, and each decides for itself what its chief executive shall be called. So does Sevastopol, where the head of
Architecture · Art · Moscow · Observations · Heritage
The metro station Dobryninskaya (formerly Serpukhovskaya) is adorned with 16 refined bas-reliefs by Elena Janson-Manizer, wife of the author of the bronze sculptures at Ploshchad Revolyutsii station
The marble reliefs depict, for the most part, agricultural workers. This is presumably meant to allude to the chief farming trade of each Soviet republic. Why 16 republics? The Union republics, the RSFSR included, numbered 15 from 1956 onwards; in 1950, when the station opened, there was still the Karelo-
Archive · Art · Moscow · People
Boris Chaliapin in Moscow in 1960
Boris Chaliapin in Moscow in 1960. A stroll past the Ryabushinsky mansion, the Church of the Great Ascension at the Nikitsky Gates and along Spiridonovka. The elder son of Feodor Chaliapin, who had moved to France in 1925, visited Moscow several times during the years of the Thaw. An exhibition