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Aristocracy · Moscow · Museums · Mores · Saint Petersburg
The Olenin samovar in the Pushkin Museum and the poet's failed courtship of Anna Olenina
A cast-bronze Olenin samovar of the early nineteenth century, with a tap in the form of an eagle's head. The samovar belonged to Alexey Nikolayevich Olenin, President of the Academy of Arts and Director of the Imperial Public Library, whose salon was among the most brilliant in
NB! · Moscow · Museums · Observations · Humour
Even "clever" algorithms do not quite grasp that the Pushkin Museum and the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts are NOT THE SAME THING
Faith · Moscow · Museums · Heritage
The State Historical Museum Begins the First Stage of Restoring a Unique Nineteenth-Century Icon, "The Saviour of Smolensk with Saints Sergius of Radonezh and Varlaam of Khutyn Kneeling", from Saint Basil's Cathedral
The State Historical Museum has begun the first stage of restoring a unique nineteenth-century icon, "The Saviour of Smolensk with Saints Sergius of Radonezh and Varlaam of Khutyn Kneeling", from Saint Basil's Cathedral. The icon has been handed over to the Grabar restoration workshops. The
Monarchies · Moscow · Museums · Mores
A beard badge confirmed payment for exemption from shaving under the 1698 decree
The Famous Beard Token, or a Metal Receipt for the Tax on Wearing a Beard in the Time of Peter I. The compulsory shaving of beards, confirmed by a decree of 1698, did not apply to men who paid, depending on their estate, from 30 to 600 roubles a year.
Art · Moscow · Museums
The Fire of Moscow in 1812, Unknown Artist
Collection of the Museum of Moscow
NB! · Archive · Monarchies · Moscow · Mores
A chest with a roast ox and other provisions, uncovered and covered, set up along the route of Elizabeth Petrovna's ceremonial procession into Moscow on 28 February 1742
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Stone mascaron with a moustache from an 18th-century Moscow house at the Museum of Moscow
A moustached mascaron from an eighteenth-century Moscow house. Museum of Moscow
Art · Books · Moscow · Museums
The Multimedia Art Museum continues to honour the legacy of our distinguished contemporary Erik Bulatov, this time with the opening of the exhibition "A Marvellous Journey" by Erik Bulatov and Oleg Vasiliev, spanning thirty years of joint work…
Here is how the curators describe the exhibition: For the representatives of unofficial Soviet art, illustrations for children's books were not only a means of earning a living but also a space of creative freedom. Art for children was censored more gently, and for the Conceptualist artists the
Coming Up · The East · Art · Moscow · Museums · Saint Petersburg
A Few Words on the Tretyakov Gallery's Exhibition Plans
The Tretyakov Gallery will open the year with a retrospective of the artist Francisco Infante, "The Formula of Infinity". In spring the New Tretyakov will host the exhibition "The Road to the East", a project about the Russian artists who worked in Central Asia in the
NB! · Architecture · Moscow · Observations · Heritage · Paris · Humour
Can Sobyanin Be Summoned to Versailles?
Can Sobyanin be summoned to Versailles? If only for the duration of the repairs to the Parterre du Midi and the Parterre du Nord