Architecture · Moscow · Heritage
Where did the handsome surface vestibule of Arbatskaya metro station go? A building with columns and heavy stucco ornament, resembling a triumphal arch of three bays, is nowhere to be found on Arbat Square today. This vestibule of Arbatskaya station on the blue Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya line was built in 1953,
Architecture · Moscow · Heritage · Education
Young Sechenov students celebrate the Day of Knowledge in a world-famous monument of Soviet avant-garde architecture, the Club of the Kauchuk Factory designed by the architect Konstantin Melnikov. A decade-long history of neglect, which had brought this monument of Constructivism to a dilapidated state, ended with restoration
Art · Moscow · Museums · Observations
I went to see the Garage Museum's Open Storage. Ever since I first got to know the museum, I had been waiting for its own collection, so I count this important event in Russian museum life as important for myself as well. Perhaps my expectations of the Open
Moscow · Museums · Observations · Heritage
The museum needs help. One of my favourite museums in Moscow, the Fersman Mineralogical Museum of the Academy of Sciences, has had a hard time of it since part of its ceiling collapsed last year, in a building that is, if you please, a cultural heritage site of federal significance.
Archive · Art · Moscow · Museums · People
The Museum of Russian Impressionism is showing an exhibition devoted to one of the first glossy magazines of pre-revolutionary Russia, "Capital and Country Estate" (Stolitsa i usadba), which first appeared in 1913. The display brings together paintings from 44 museums and 14 private collections that either appeared
Coming Up · Art · Moscow · Museums
✔️The exhibition "ART-Workshop XXI. A Mirror for the Artist" at the exhibition hall of the Zaryadye Media Centre, Varvarka 6/1, until 15 September. ✔️The exhibition by Pavel Efanov and Alla Polkovnichenko, "Urban Romantics", at the Vykhino Gallery of the Moscow Exhibition Halls Association, Tashkentskaya
NB! · Architecture · Moscow · Observations · Heritage
Restoration of the single-storey wooden Terskoy-Lopatin House in Sechenovsky Lane. The house dates from the 1820s and has fine stucco decoration characteristic of the period, together with a wrought-iron fence. The building stood empty for many years but, thank God, has survived. I hope the restoration work
NB! · Moscow · Observations · Society · Humour
Meanwhile, half of Moscow is closed off again. Thank goodness it's not the Garden Ring, at least
Art · Moscow
Blue Moscow. Leonid Brailovsky, 1920
NB! · Moscow · Observations · Humour
In the Press · Books · Moscow · Museums · Heritage
In a recent interview with Kommersant, Vladimir Tolstoy, who a month ago took up the post of Director General of the Leo Tolstoy State Museum, spoke of the main tasks awaiting him in his new office. The first item on the new director's list of priorities is to
Coming Up · Art · Moscow · Museums
As every Monday, in the "Where to Go" column I gather for you the main events at Moscow's museums and art galleries. Do hurry! ✔️The exhibition "The Construction of Creativity", tracing the image of the builder from the 1930s to the present day, at