Archive · In the Press · Moscow · Mores
Arrested: Perevedentsev, the yard-keeper of house No. 49 on Serpukhovskaya Street. The matter is this: when the police set up an ambush in one of the flats of the house, the yard-keeper warned every person making for that flat that those who came there were being detained. "
Art · Moscow · Museums · Mores · Ethnography
The Reception of the Dowry According to the Inventory, Vasily Pukirev, 1873. Collection of the Tretyakov Gallery. The bride is not easy to find in this picture: all the attention is on the things. The dowry, a word still heard in our grandmothers' vocabulary, had in the old days
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After yesterday's radio broadcast I hurried to Plus Dacha in Gorky Park, where in the coolness of the spreading avenues the atmospheric playlist of the "Ultima Salon: Africa" party, curated by Ultima Yandex Go and Yandex Music, was already playing. Plus Dacha has changed greatly since
Cinema · Moscow · Observations · People
I remember first meeting People's Artist of the Soviet Union Yulia Borisova, as I waited by the stage door for Lyudmila Maksakova, to have a word with her after the performance. The door opened and up the steps came a slight, slender Yulia Borisova with a small bouquet
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My friend, the pianist and composer Riad Mammadov, has released a new album of academic repertoire and his own compositions, recorded during a solo concert in the Italian Courtyard of the Pushkin Museum in April 2023. The programme of the recital, and of the album, is made up of works
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Album of the Beauties of the Whole World from the editors of the newspaper Russkiy Listok, 1903. These are precisely the world's beauties as I had always pictured them
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On 27 July the MMOMA Education Centre at 17 Yermolayevsky Lane will open "Artist-Collector", an exhibition project by Georgy Kizevalter, a representative of Moscow Conceptualism and one of the founders of the art group Collective Actions. Kizevalter works in such media as painting, photography, installation and performance,
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Aristocracy · Archive · Moscow · Mores
The economic crisis of late 1916 compelled many noble Muscovites to forsake their private transport for public, and to choose the tram, not yet so familiar, but far cheaper than a private motor car. Alexandre Benois noted in his diary with astonishment that he had once met, on a tram,
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“I know of no state at present that stands in greater danger. ... All will go well only when the Tsar sits in blood up to his elbows.” The Dutch merchant Isaac Massa on the state of the Muscovite realm, in a letter to the States General written from Moscow in