Coming Up · Art · Moscow · People
From 22 May to 13 July 2025, the Andrey Cheglakov Foundation on Prechistenka will host Boris Kocheishvili's solo exhibition "Cloud, Lake, Tower", timed to the artist's 85th birthday. The project will present to the wider public the many-sided work of one of the
The East · Art · Moscow · Observations
It turns out a week has already passed since the close of the sixth "Art Russia" contemporary art fair at Gostiny Dvor. We are told that the fair gathered a record number of participants and guests: more than 50,000 people attended. Interestingly, this year the fair presented
Archive · Art · Moscow · People
"Lev Nikolaevich is being modelled all the time by Trubetskoy, and the bust is very good: majestic, characteristic and true" - Sofya Andreyevna Tolstaya, diary entry of 16 - 23 April 1898. The friendly relations between Tolstoy and Trubetskoy are, in general, well known. Lev Nikolayevich liked the artist'
Faith · Moscow · Observations · Mores · Society
I have a question, addressed perhaps not even to the rectors of Moscow's churches so much as to observant citizens at large. What, exactly, is so difficult about bringing in pussy willow for parishioners and setting up stalls with it on the grounds near the church? Candles are
NB! · Archive · Faith · Moscow · Observations · Ethnography
Palm Sunday celebrations on Red Square in 1896 and in the 1910s. Trading stalls were set up on Red Square, with festive revelry and Palm Sunday sleigh rides. And today?
Archive · Monarchies · Moscow
Ivan the Terrible receives the Danish ambassadors together with his eldest son. Before the audience, the bailiffs strictly forbade the ambassadors to recite the titles of their king ahead of the titles of the Prince of Moscow, reminding them that envoys who had once broken this rule had been expelled
Aristocracy · Archive · Moscow · Mores
The Moscow winter Seasons of 1814-15 were brighter and richer than the pre-war Seasons of 1810-11. This is understandable: people were exhausted by the hardships of war, by ruin, by universal gloom and endless mourning, and when the time came, they returned to life with new and
Archive · Architecture · Moscow · Observations · Heritage · Society
March draws to a close, 63 days remain until summer. Let us recall together the most interesting pieces on the channel over the past month: 📌 A photo chronicle of Moscow in the pictures of an American spy. Unique colour shots of the capital in the 1950s. 📌 Plywood night bombers against
Aristocracy · Archive · Moscow · Mores
Yekaterina Khovanskaya, like many mothers, suffered greatly when no word came from her son, especially during the chief and bloodiest battles, which only aggravated her already very frail condition. The son was a notorious carouser and simply forgot to write home, so his papa devised a stratagem: he asked him,
NB! · Archive · Art · Moscow
NB! · Archive · Moscow
Beloved Smolenka, 1982. Photo by Walter Schmitz
Moscow · Museums · Observations · Society
Among today's news, besides the session of the Council for Culture and the Arts, there is a very pleasant message from the Tretyakov Gallery for Culture Worker's Day: to keep the creator alive within oneself, and to remember that culture workers turn routine into a work