Architecture · Moscow · Heritage
The most beautiful fence in Moscow is not the Kremlin wall but the railing of the Demidov estate in Bolshoy Tolmachyovsky Lane. And although this eighteenth-century estate was owned by various families, it is called Demidov's precisely because of its outstanding railing, cast at the Demidov works.
Art · Moscow · Museums
The poetic and original "Sleeping Princess", completed by Vasnetsov a year before his death, in 1926, is considered one of his finest paintings. The princess has fallen asleep together with the entire sovereign's court; even the bear that was to have danced at her wedding is
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Why are copies of the manuscript of "Anna Karenina" displayed on the fence of the Khrushchev-Seleznev urban noble estate? Because in the garden of the State Pushkin Museum the new season of the "Tolstoy" Theatre Festival is being presented. It will take place at Yasnaya
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The Futurist Poet Vladimir Goltsshmidt Hypnotises a Hen, Photograph Taken No Later Than 1923. Goltsshmidt was a fairly celebrated figure of his day, and his fame rested above all on a long series of scandalous stunts. He gave lectures on strange subjects, speaking both on the benefits of hardening the
Art · Moscow · Museums · Education
The Pushkin Museum website has an excellent page of lectures and videos about art in sign language, including an account of the main masterpieces in the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts collection in International Sign. The section is called "The Pushkin for All"
Books · Moscow · People
"And did we not prove in the year 'twelve that we are Russians? Such an example has not been seen since the beginning of the world! We are contemporaries and do not fully understand the great fire of Moscow; we cannot be astonished at this deed; this thought,
Books · Moscow · Observations · People · Humour
A caricature of the Moscow collector Alexey Bakhrushin
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To the country's finest museum, our dear and beloved Pushkin Museum, 111 years old today. Yelizaveta Likhacheva, Director of the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, invites you to celebrate this great anniversary
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Art · Moscow · Museums · Society Pages
An exhibition of the outstanding master of geometric abstraction, the first Russian minimalist Alexandr Yulikov, has opened at the Tretyakov Gallery on Krymsky Val. The display brings together works spanning more than 50 years, which allows one to trace the development of the artist's method and his turn
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Once Lev Nikolayevich [Tolstoy] asked me to track down everything that had been written about Vereshchagin, whom Rostopchin, in the year twelve, handed over to the people to be torn apart as a traitor. I remember that I collected a great many accounts of the event, from newspapers and elsewhere,
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