Architecture · Moscow · Heritage · Society

1954 station building at Leninskaya platform in Domodedovo put up for sale on Avito

Apparently, the platform from which Lenin's funeral train departed in 1924 is being sold for half a billion roubles. A railway station has been put up for sale on Avito. Leninskaya (Gerasimovo) platform on the Paveletsky line of the Moscow Railway, in the Domodedovo urban district of Moscow

Ice sculpture shaped as an oval medallion with the Russian inscription “Kafe Pushkin” against dark wood panelling and lamps.

NB! · Moscow · Observations · Mores

Café Pushkin Marks Its 25th Anniversary

Our beloved Café Pushkin turns 25 today! A truly legendary place: many happy returns

A theatre stage with a set of red, yellow, blue and white rectangles in a black grid, a chandelier above and the orchestra below.

NB! · Moscow · Observations · Society Pages

Scenography of “The Marriage of Figaro” on the New Stage of the Bolshoi Theatre

"The Marriage of Figaro" on the New Stage of the Bolshoi Theatre. Interesting set design, don't you think? Was the designer inspired by anyone, do you suppose?

NB! · Moscow · Observations · Humour

A miniature entitled: Heat of +25 Opposes Cold of -2 in Moscow, May 2024

A miniature entitled: Heat of +25 Opposes Cold of -2 in Moscow, May 2024. We understand, of course, on whose side the sun stands

NB! · Moscow · Museums · Observations

The Pushkin Museum Turns 112

Old sepia photograph of several men sitting at a table with cups, a bottle and a carafe, with a translucent lampshade hanging above.

Archive · Moscow · People

Photograph by Alexander Rodchenko, 1926, showing men seated at a table

Morning in the Flat of Vladimir Mayakovsky and the Briks in Gendrikov Lane. Photograph by Alexander Rodchenko, 1926

Faith · The East · Cinema · Moscow · Society Pages

We begin our screening of "Little Buddha" with Karo.Art at the October Cinema Centre

We begin our screening of "Little Buddha" with Karo.Art at the October Cinema Centre. As usual, I have prepared extracts from ancient tomes for discussion after the film. We shall be talking with the artist Mikhail Rubankov. And a little later I shall invite everyone to my

Archive · Books · Moscow · Observations · Education · Humour

“Boris Godunov” from Academia as a gift to a delegate of a trade union conference in 1936

They really knew how to give presents in those days. A dedicatory inscription to a Delegate of the first district trade-union conference of the union of primary and secondary school workers of the RSFSR, 22 September 1936, from the Krasnogvardeisky District Committee of the city of Moscow. And on

Coming Up · Books · Moscow · Science

Book presentation, lectures and seminars from 22 to 28 May in Moscow and Saint Petersburg

On Wednesdays, as is our custom, I share a selection of intellectual events for the coming week. 🧩22 May at 18:00 Presentation of F. Holt's book «When Money Talks: A History of Coins and Numismatics from Antiquity to Pop Culture» at the State Public Historical Library of

NB! · Architecture · Moscow · Observations · Society

The bridge to Balchug over the Vodootvodny Canal has still not opened, and almost a year has passed

Archaeology · Books · Moscow · Science · Reportage · Ethnography

Eight-volume Academic History of Yugra, written by 130 scholars, presented at VDNKh

A publication unique in Russian historical scholarship has been presented at VDNKh: the Academic History of Yugra in eight volumes. It is the first project of its kind in Russia: a comprehensive study of the region's history, from the era of its settlement 18,000 to 16,000

Coming Up · Moscow

Listings of theatre and concert events in Moscow from 18 to 27 May

A calendar of the main theatre and concert events in Moscow. Do not miss them. 18 May at 19:00 📌The production “Chance Meetings”, based on the works of Ivan Bunin, on the other stage of the Sovremennik Theatre, at 17 Chistoprudny Boulevard. 20 May at 19:00 📌The production