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The talent of Vera Mukhina in the sculpture “Worker and Kolkhoz Woman”
A Daily Declaration of Love to Moscow. And, of course, once again we doff our hats to the talent of Vera Ignatievna Mukhina.
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Architecture · Faith · Moscow · Observations
Church of St Nicholas the Wonderworker in Pyzhi, Zamoskvorechye, with kokoshniki and brick decoration
The Church of St Nicholas the Wonderworker of Myra in Pyzhi. Splendid, solemn, richly appointed. One of the most remarkable churches of Zamoskvorechye. Look at those charming kokoshniks, at the naive brick decoration. I love this church dearly: the seventeenth century gave Moscow its most precious, its most characteristically Russian
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How Beautiful Moscow Is
Coming Up · Moscow · Education
Save this selection of lectures and round tables coming up shortly in Moscow
🧩15 May at 19:00 Lecture "Music. A Non-Verbal Language" at the Sviatoslav Richter Memorial Apartment, 2/6 Bolshaya Bronnaya. 🧩16 May at 15:00 Round table "Scientia angelica: The Science of Angels" at the Institute of Philosophy of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 12
Aristocracy · Faith · Monarchies · Moscow
On 14 May 1896, Nicholas II was crowned
On 14 May 1896, Nicholas II was crowned. He was to be allotted 22 years and 3 months on the throne of Russia. The sacrament of the holy coronation took place in the Dormition Cathedral of the Moscow Kremlin and lasted five hours. From the Dormition Cathedral the imperial couple
Architecture · Moscow · Observations · Society
The choice of Shirshov and Mikoyan for signs on the House on the Embankment
Opposite the mostly infamous House on the Embankment stand two signs reading "The house where ... lived". One wonders by what principle, out of several dozen outstanding and quite well-known names, it was Academician Shirshov and Mikoyan who were chosen. After all, besides them the house was home
Coming Up · Moscow
Listings from 11 to 20 May include Bruckner’s Mass, the opera “Faust” and the premiere of “Fathers and Sons”
The Traditional Friday Round-Up of Concerts and Theatre Events in Moscow for the Coming Days. 11 May at 19:00 📌Anton Bruckner's Mass No. 3 in F minor, performed by a mixed choir and orchestra under the direction of Philipp Chizhevsky at the Novaya Opera Theatre in
Moscow · Heritage · Nature
Snow fells a willow in the Apothecary Garden that predates the garden's founding in 1706
In the Apothecary Garden, snow has brought down an ancient willow that was growing there even before the botanical garden was founded under Peter I in 1706. It is one of the oldest trees in Moscow. The willow was not planted deliberately as part of the botanical garden, but had
NB! · Architecture · Faith · Moscow · Observations
On the site of the cosy "Zvon" coffee shop in the basement of the seventeenth-century bell tower of the Church of St John the Baptist on Pyatnitskaya Street, a different coffee shop has opened following a change of rector: it is called "Perezvon"
NB! · Monarchies · Moscow · Museums
Vladimir Putin and the Diamond Cap of Peter I Alexeyevich
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Tikhon, the first Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia since the restoration of the patriarchate in 1917, at the Easter moleben by the Nikolsky Gate, 5 May 1918
Coming Up · Architecture · Moscow · Science
The People's Observatory in Gorky Park offers sky viewing to all visitors from 1 May
The People's Observatory in Gorky Park: once the leaves come out, it will not be so easy to spot. The first astronomical station was built on this site as early as 1929, the present building went up in the 1950s, and since 2015 two new telescopes, donated by