Architecture · Faith · Cinema · Moscow · Observations
From a new film about Kofemania I learned that its founder, Igor Zhuravlev, who attended the Church of the Hieromartyr Blaise in the Old Stable Settlement, considers the rector of that church, Archpriest Alexei Novikov, the man who determined his fate. Hence the actual icons that hang in all of
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It is now fifty years since the bulldozers and water-sprinkler trucks rumbled away from the junction of Ostrovityanov and Profsoyuznaya Streets, but the memory of the USSR's chief exhibition of unofficial art, the so-called "Bulldozer Exhibition", lives on, and interest in Soviet nonconformism only
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Leonid Tskhe's exhibition "Capriccio", on the theme of embraces, has opened at the Vladey gallery on Neglinnaya. Most of Leonid Tskhe's works have no subject, yet in the paintings of the Capriccio series one can indeed make out both a Pietà and a Descent
Architecture · Faith · Moscow
With today's tea: the legendary "Zamoskvorechye" sweet, adorned with architectural landmarks of old Moscow: the historic building of the Tretyakov Gallery with its Vasnetsov façade, the Church of St Nicholas on Bersenevka, the bell tower of the Church of the Holy Wisdom of God in Srednie
Architecture · The East · Moscow · Education
Masonic Moscow. A six-pointed star, blazing torches and a medallion with a three-faced figure in the bas-reliefs on the façade of the Kazakov building of Moscow University (photos 1, 2), rebuilt in 1817 under the direction of Domenico, or Dementy Ivanovich, Gilardi. Today the Kazakov building houses
Art · Moscow · Observations · Reportage
A quick look round Blazar: this year there is a large section of independent artists, with a great many young people and new names. The number of regional stands has noticeably grown, so this is no longer a purely Moscow fair. Among the Moscow galleries I would single out the
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