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Among the ceramic miniatures that adorn the hall of Borovitskaya metro station are tiles depicting electrical circuit diagrams, tractor cogwheels, car tyres, icebreakers, oil derricks, cosmonauts... jet aircraft, stars, fish, birds…
NB! · Art · Moscow
Works from Yuri Zlotnikov's celebrated "Signal System" series, recently discussed by the art historian Andrei Yerofeyev, are on sale at the Cosmoscow fair, PopoffArt stand
Art · Moscow · Museums
Artist Vladimir Chernyshev to install a sundial in the courtyard of the Museum of Moscow
A vast sundial is to be installed in the inner courtyard of the Museum of Moscow by the weekend. The gnomon is of metal, the dial of tarmac. The author of the installation is the artist Vladimir Chernyshev. I shall not venture into the finer points of what this piece
Faith · Art · Moscow · Museums
The Angel with a Nail
From the collection of the Perm State Art Gallery. The exhibition “From Icon to Avant-Garde” at the New Tretyakov Gallery
Archive · Art · Monarchies · Moscow · Mores · Society
Apollinary Vasnetsov and the menus of the coronation dinners in Moscow in May 1896
Menu of the dinner for the volost elders, 18 May 1896, at the Petrovsky Palace on the occasion of the coronation of Nicholas II, printed in colour lithography at the Levenson quick-printing house from sketches by Apollinary Vasnetsov, younger brother of t. Apollinary Vasnetsov, like his brother, took part
Architecture · Moscow · Society
Another Pedestrian Bridge to Span the Vodootvodny Canal in Moscow
The bridge has already been moored close to the place where it is to be installed. The span is 54 metres long and weighs 235 tonnes. The structure took 4 months to assemble in Lytkarino, Moscow Region. It will be put in place on 14 September. It will be raised
Coming Up · Art · Moscow · Museums
Tretyakov Gallery opens a small exhibition of Alexander Ivanov's graphic works
A chamber display of Alexander Ivanov's drawings has opened in the main building of the Tretyakov Gallery, which holds the greater part of his legacy. The gallery's collection includes more than 700 separate sheets by Ivanov and 40 albums. The exhibition is in the room next
Art · Moscow · Museums · Ethnography
Portrait of Surikov's niece Tatyana Domozhilova in a mosquito net, 1891
In the Surikov Room (Room 28) of the Tretyakov Gallery, a small portrait of a woman in an unusual headdress catches the eye; it turns out to be not a veil but a mosquito net. It is a portrait of Surikov's niece Tatyana Kapitonovna Domozhilova in traditional Siberian
NB! · Architecture · Geography · Moscow · Observations
And in front of the Manege, a train is parked
NB! · Architecture · Monarchies · Moscow · People
Catherine the Great and Her White Hands at the Entrance to the Grand Palace at Tsaritsyno
NB! · Architecture · Moscow · Observations · Humour