Faith · Art · Moscow · Mores
The opera "Stiffelio" never became widely known. On its appearance in 1850 it was mangled by the censors and consigned to oblivion. The story of a married Protestant pastor capable of forgiving his wife her infidelity provoked a stormy and hostile reaction in Catholic Italy. Years later Verdi
Faith · Art · Moscow · Museums
The Pushkin Museum has acquired the painting "The Adoration of the Magi" by Otto van Veen, one of the greatest Flemish masters of the 17th century and the chief teacher and mentor of Rubens. The painting was executed by the celebrated master in his Antwerp period, around 1600.
Art · Moscow · Museums · Observations
The Museum of Russian Impressionism has a very good exhibition of the artists of the rather original and productive group "13", which existed in 1929-1931. The core of the group was Vladimir Milashevsky, Daniil Daran and Nikolai Kuzmin, who worked at the newspaper Gudok and rethought the
NB! · Art · Moscow · Museums · Science
"Rouen Cathedral at Noon (The Portal and the Tour d'Albane)" and "Rouen Cathedral in the Evening". The Pushkin Museum, exhibition "'Rouen Cathedrals'. A Study of Claude Monet's Paintings from the Collection of the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts&
Art · Moscow · Museums · Paris
The exhibition is intimate, yet Ponomarev does not feel cramped in this modest space: his spirit lives in the open expanse of the world's elements and takes form in works whose driving forces are the surface of the sea and the canopy of the sky, the might of
NB! · Geography · Moscow · Observations
They say Moscow is a big village, but I do not much care for the phrase, and it is not true at all. The French rock musician Jacques Dutronc has a more accurate one: Corsica is a small continent, Europe is a large island. You can continue the analogy yourselves
Books · Moscow · Observations
On the whole, "The Master and Margarita" is less about mysticism than about people who have got stuck in some other time. Or perhaps it is the novel itself that has got stuck in the wrong time? In the Silver Age, for instance. Otherwise it would be hard
NB! · Art · Monarchies · Moscow
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Saint Mary Magdalene, a wooden sculpture of the 17th century, attributed to the Spaniard Pedro de Mena. Collection of the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts. The exhibition at the Pushkin Museum, “The Spanish Collection. From the Holdings of Russian Museums”, is open until 4 February
Cinema · Books · Moscow · Observations
It is no accident that Dostoevsky tops the IMDb ranking of the "100 Greatest Authors of All Time": he remains not merely one of the most published and most read writers, but also the most adapted for the screen. But why does it matter to go on adapting
Coming Up · Monarchies · Moscow · Museums · Education
A Hussar Officer's Mentik of the Life Guards Hussar Regiment, Made for Grand Duke Alexander Nikolayevich When He Was Two Months Old. From the collection of the Tsarskoye Selo State Museum Reserve; on view at Tsaritsyno, in the exhibition "Becoming a Romanov. Upbringing and Education in the
Archive · Faith · Moscow · Mores · Society
The Arrival of Foreigners in Moscow in the Seventeenth Century, Sergei Vasilyevich Ivanov, 1901. Until the reign of Peter, all Europeans in Russia were called, and written down as, unbaptised. And the Council Code of 1649 laid down outright a prohibition on Russians serving, or being in bondage, to unbaptised