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Photo by Yury Rybchinsky Anastasia, the younger sister of Marina Tsvetaeva, also travelled a far from easy road. Her first husband, the chemical engineer Mauritius Mints, died of peritonitis only two years after the wedding, in the Crimea, at the house of Maximilian Voloshin, where they had gone after the
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Where did Rodchenko and Stepanova live in Moscow? E. L.: At first they made do in other people's flats, in tiny rooms. They lived in a house belonging to the family of Vasily Kandinsky, at 8 Dolgy Lane (now Burdenko Street), in flat 25, while Kandinsky spent almost
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The bridge along Bolotnaya Embankment, whose construction we have followed since the spring, is at last ready. Remember, I wrote that they would probably want to open it for City Day? They made it just in time
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Tretyakov Gallery collection
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Just think: the Polytechnic Museum has been closed since 2013, so one might say an entire generation of visitors has been denied the chance to set foot in this unique building. Does anyone have any notion of when the museum will reopen in its native home, or, more precisely, whether
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The collision arises from a lawsuit brought by the Democrat Joyce Beatty against the attachment of Trump's name to the building. In May 2026 a court had already ordered that name removed from the title "Donald J. Trump and John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing
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The Seventies are arranged in a rather unusual way in Soviet culture. The Thaw was over, the euphoria had evaporated, and it became clear to certain people that print runs in the millions and vast auditoriums no longer loomed on the horizon, while large exhibitions would be of whatever format
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Dear Crocodile, we need you very much. We have a little river. Next to it there is a big chemical factory. It is spoiling the river, and soon there will be no river, only one big inkwell. We are writing to you because you are held in great esteem. Come
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Something strange at the Institute of Art History. No one will own up to whose brushes these are
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At the Institute of Art History on Kozitsky Lane, Gosha Ostretsov's exhibition "Utopia" has opened, a sort of itinerary through the artist's universe, with works from the 1990s to the 2020s. In the absence of a curatorial text, all that remains is to watch
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Photo collage, 1934