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Walls of an 1884 student residence in Filippovsky Lane exposed, revealing a wooden building

In Filippovsky Lane the walls of the former Lepyoshkin Student Hostel of the Imperial Moscow University (1884), which now houses the Theatre House "Old Arbat", have been stripped of their plaster. The most interesting thing here, besides the vivid demonstration of the lost technologies of the past, is

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Dutch barber Quirin suspected of sorcery because of a skeleton on his wall

Adam Olearius, in his "Detailed Description of the Journey of the Holstein Embassy to Muscovy and Persia in 1633, 1636 and 1639", relates the following incident:. "...a barber named Quirinus, a Dutchman and a man of merry disposition, being in the service of the Grand Duke, kept

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David in the Italian Courtyard of the Pushkin Museum during the Great Patriotic War

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Vinzavod Open Studios of the 11th season open to visitors from 3 July

From 3 July the Open Studios at Winzavod are open to visitors. Visiting the studios, one can meet the participants of the 11th season: Alisa Smorodina, Yury Chernyshev, Anya Grositskaya, Nadya Petrova, Dina Borovik, Lana Morozova, Marina Glebova, Alexandr Gordeyev, Yevgenia Bolyukh and Vanya Repkin. The Winzavod Open Studios form

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Monument to Tsar Nicholas II the Martyr near Mytishchi, village of Taininskoye, Moscow Region

Monument to Tsar Nicholas II the Martyr near Mytishchi, village of Taininskoye, Moscow Region. The author is the sculptor Vyacheslav Klykov. The monument was erected in 1996, for the centenary of Nicholas II's coronation, on the ancient royal road from Moscow to the Trinity Lavra of St Sergius,

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Stalin in Hiding

The Tretyakov Gallery in Lavrushinsky Lane, round one of the corners of the main building

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Garage Museum will show its own collection in open storage for the first time this autumn

For the first time in its entire history, the Garage Museum will acquire a collection of its own and a permanent display; more precisely, the collection will be shown as open storage in the museum's main building, the Four Seasons pavilion. The first works acquired by the museum

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🕯️On the eve of 22 June, a memorial to the Great Patriotic War was opened on the Moskva River embankment in Muzeon Park

🕯️On the eve of 22 June, a memorial to the Great Patriotic War was opened on the Moskva River embankment in Muzeon Park. Set into the granite parapet are perpetual lamps, one for each day of the war: from 22 June 1941 to 9 May 1945.

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The exhibition “Square and Space” opens at GES-2, with works from Malevich to the Kabakovs

The "Square and Space" exhibition, curated by Zelfira Tregulova and Francesco Bonami, has opened at GES-2. Judging by the sheer number of first-rank names gathered for it, this is an event of international standing. According to the curators' conception, in the first quarter of the

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Georgy Mikhailovich Romanov-Hohenzollern, one of the claimants to the headship of the Russian Imperial House, at the opening of the exhibition “The Magazine of the Beautiful Life” at the Museum of Russian Impressionism

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AZ/ART Centre of Contemporary Art opens in Moscow with the exhibition “Non-Obvious Intersections”

Another serious cultural institution has appeared on the map of Moscow: the AZ/ART Centre for Contemporary Art. The centre is housed in a historic seventeenth-century building on Maroseika. Its opening is marked by an exhibition, a joint project with the Foundation of the composer Nikolai Karetnikov, entitled "

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Mask of a River God from a Roman Sarcophagus of the Third Century

From the collection of the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts. Exhibition "Three Times of Rome. Antiquity. Renaissance. Baroque"