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Pushkin Museum to show rescued masterpieces, the Baryatinsky collection and French drawing

The Pushkin Museum Unveils Its Exhibition Programme for 2025. Of particular interest are the exhibitions in the Main Building, "Returning to the Future. On the History of Masterpieces Lost and Saved in the Second World War" and "The Museum of the Baryatinskys. European Art of the 17th–

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The first building of the museum quarter of the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts

The first building of the museum quarter of the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts is planned to open in autumn 2026. "At the end of next year they will begin handing over the first buildings to us. This will be the building of the depository and restoration complex,

Workers in high-visibility vests at an excavation by the Doge's Palace in Venice, with herringbone brick paving and a puddle in the foreground.

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Old brick paving found beneath modern stone tiles in St Mark's Square in Venice

In Venice the modern paving of Piazza San Marco has been taken up, and beneath the stone slabs clinker brick has come to light. A viewing window with a section of the old paving may perhaps be kept, as in Moscow on Pushechnaya Street beside the Sophia Church

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Ilya Repin's painting "Ivan the Terrible and His Son Ivan on 16 November 1581" returns to the permanent display of the Tretyakov Gallery, where an exhibition devoted to its large-scale restoration will open

The project is called "Ivan the Terrible and His Son Ivan. The Return". The display will include, among other things, studies and sketches reflecting the artist's long search for the composition, the types and the historical details. Archive documents will show the chronicle of the first

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A reminder to those planning to spend money or sell their eyes!

A reminder to those planning to spend money or sell their eyes! Today sees the opening of the Katalog contemporary art fair at the Sytin printing house on Pyatnitskaya, and of the Non/fiction fair of intellectual literature at the Gostiny Dvor. The main thing is not to rush, not

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Central Museum of Russian Cossacks to be Housed in a Mansion in Bolshoy Levshinsky Lane

A Museum of the Cossacks is to open in Moscow. It will become part of the complex of the State Historical Museum. The Central Museum of the Russian Cossacks will be housed in an old mansion in Bolshoy Levshinsky Lane, where before the Revolution of 1917 the Palace Department had

Antique engraved panorama of Moscow with Kremlin walls and towers, houses, a river and trees in the foreground, captioned Moskow.

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Panorama of Moscow in the 1718 edition of Cornelis de Bruijn's travels

Panorama of Moscow from Cornelis de Bruijn's "Travels in Muscovy, Persia and India", in my 1718 edition. Incidentally, I have found my own house here.

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The Legendary US Coat of Arms with Bugs, Presented to the American Ambassador in the USSR by Young Pioneers

The legendary US coat of arms with bugs, presented to the American ambassador in the USSR by Young Pioneers. A wood-carved copy of the Great Seal of the United States was presented to the ambassador by a delegation of Young Pioneers who had come on an excursion to the

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The scaffolding netting has come off Sytin's Printing House on Pyatnitskaya Street; a winter contemporary art fair will be held here from 6 to 8 December|catalog|

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Archnadzor publishes a statement drawing attention to Article 17 of the new Moscow city law No. 24 "On Objects of Cultural Heritage"

Under this article, by 1 July 2025 all newly identified monuments must be entered in the register of regional objects of cultural heritage (OCH), which confers protected status. Those that fail to make it into the register will be struck from the list of identified monuments. There are currently 1,

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I kept wondering why the exhibition in the Green Foyer of the Moscow Art Theatre, devoted to six productions of "The Seagull" and at the same time to Chekhov's 165th anniversary, is called "From Konstantin to Konstantin"

I kept wondering why the exhibition in the Green Foyer of the Moscow Art Theatre, devoted to six productions of "The Seagull" and at the same time to Chekhov's 165th anniversary, is called "From Konstantin to Konstantin". It turns out that what is meant

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A touching, warm exhibition has opened at the Space 1618 gallery in Staromonetny Lane: Saule Madiyeva presents a series of conceptual works in felt

A touching, warm exhibition has opened at the Space 1618 gallery in Staromonetny Lane: Saule Madiyeva presents a series of conceptual works in felt. On the one hand, the artist turns to traditional techniques and uses the favourite material of the nomadic world; on the other, she attempts a personal,