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Yury Avvakumov created a model mausoleum of dominoes with Swarovski crystals in 2008
A mausoleum of black dominoes with Swarovski crystals. An homage to Shchusev. Yury Avvakumov, 2008. The domino, a byword for the chain reaction, for unstable, successive collapse, becomes the material of an object emblematic of both a political system and modern history. On the other hand, it is a tomb
Art · Moscow · Observations · Mores
The bearded paterfamilias at supper in Édouard Vuillard's painting lends the table the atmosphere of merchant Moscow
The bearded paterfamilias at supper in Édouard Vuillard's painting lends the table the atmosphere of merchant Moscow. Old bourgeois life was everywhere just as cosy and heartfelt. Add the basket on the table and the checked cotton tablecloth. All that's missing is icons in place of
NB! · Art · Moscow · Museums · Observations
Seeing this early nineteenth-century doll at the Museum of Moscow, I was reminded of the portrait of little Alexandra Tomilova holding a doll, from the collection of the Russian Museum
Seeing this early nineteenth-century doll at the Museum of Moscow, I was reminded of the portrait of little Alexandra Tomilova holding a doll, from the collection of the Russian Museum. The artist is Alexander Varnek, 1825
NB! · Archive · Faith · Moscow · Education
Service in the House Church of the Holy Martyr Tatiana at Moscow State University, 25 January 1996
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Exhibition of Recent Works by Dmitry Bulnygin Opens at Syntax Gallery in Cube Moscow
Dmitry Bulnygin was the first contemporary artist in my collection. Known in the 2000s as a punk artist, Bulnygin, who went on to win recognition as a painter, sculptor, digital artist and videographer, seems to have had time to work in every medium. He even organised his own Ultra-Short
Architecture · Moscow · Observations
One of my favourite buildings in Moscow: the seventeenth-century water-lifting tower at Kolomenskoye
I have always been drawn to its elegance, achieved with rather modest decoration and a simple form. The brick tower is 40 metres high. In its day it served as a gateway in the enclosure wall and supplied water to the Sovereign's Court.
Archive · Art · Books · Moscow · Museums · Humour
Pushkin's 1828 letter to Delvig about children expecting to meet a sugar poet
The other day a neighbour gave a gathering, and I was due to attend. The children of his kinswoman, a spoilt set of urchins, insisted on going too; their mother brought them raisins and prunes and thought to slip away from them quietly, but Pyotr Markovich (Poltoratsky) stirred them up;
Architecture · Art · Moscow · Museums · Observations
A Masterly Exhibition of Francisco Infante Opens at the New Tretyakov
A masterly exhibition of Francisco Infante has opened at the New Tretyakov. "Metaphors of Infinity" is a colossal retrospective of Infante's entire oeuvre, from the earliest works to the newest series. What strikes one first is the extraordinary architecture: no walls at all, every work hovers
Architecture · Faith · Cinema · Moscow · Heritage · Education
School No. 36 in the Zachatievsky Convent on Ostozhenka: built in 1936, demolished after closing in 2002
A Grave Beside the School Walls? It was an interesting spot in Moscow, and surely some of my subscribers remember the building of School No. 36, which operated until 2002 inside the Conception Convent on Ostozhenka. The school building went up in 1936 on the site of a demolished church,
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An exhibition of the new cycle "Intervals" by Francisco Infante and Nonna Goryunova has opened at the Krokin Gallery
An exhibition of the new cycle "Intervals" by Francisco Infante and Nonna Goryunova has opened at the Krokin Gallery. This intimate show introduces a new series of artefacts and precedes the major opening of Infante-Arana's solo exhibition at the New Tretyakov Gallery
Moscow · Heritage · Society · Nature
Almost 150 protected areas in Moscow change status from OOPT to OOZT
At the end of last December, the Moscow government, by a decree of its own, converted the city's specially protected natural areas of regional significance (SPNAs) into specially protected green areas (SPGAs) According to the document, almost 150 parks, nature reserves, natural monuments and other protected territories are