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Having breakfast at my beloved KM20 and delighting that a copy of unloved Prince Harry's book was a gift 🥰🥰 And wishing everyone a good morning 🌞 I set about reading at once, and so far these are not the worst memoirs I have come across

Not without oddities, though. On the very first page I opened there turned up an original passage in which Harry supposes that his DNA holds a rudimentary memory of the terrorist attack of 1979 in which Lord Mountbatten, his great-great-uncle, was killed

Art · Moscow · Museums

Door from “The Miserly Knight” insured for a million roubles at the Stanislavsky Museum

A famous door from "The Miserly Knight" has been insured for a million roubles at the Stanislavsky Museum. The production was staged by Stanislavsky's Society of Amateur Actors in the building of the English Club. Stanislavsky grew so fond of the door, made to Sologub'

NB! · Architecture · Moscow · Museums

The marble staircase of the main building of the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts is called the pink staircase, after the colour of the marble with which it is faced

The marble staircase of the main building of the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts is called the pink staircase, after the colour of the marble with which it is faced. The variegated marbles used to finish the staircase were brought from Hungary, and the stone was purchased by the

NB! · Art · Moscow · Museums

David by Andrea del Verrocchio and David by Donatello

David by Andrea del Verrocchio and David by Donatello. Casts of the fifteenth-century bronze originals. The Italian Courtyard of the Pushkin Museum

Art · Moscow · Museums · Pop Culture

A sketch of my suit for this spring

A sketch of my suit for this spring. Slava Zaitsev. Museum of Moscow. Exhibition “The House of Fashion. An Industry of Images”

Coming Up · Moscow · Museums · Education

Pushkin Museum Opens Applications for Summer School of Inclusive Practices for Museum Professionals

For the attention of museum staff. The Pushkin Museum is opening applications for its “Summer School of Inclusive Practices”, intended for museum professionals who work on developing an accessible environment and on engaging with visitors in the modern museum. The project is open to specialists in inclusive, educational and interdisciplinary

NB! · Cinema · Moscow

Cillian Murphy in 2007 on the set of “28 Days Later” on Vasilyevsky Spusk in Moscow

Architecture · Moscow · Heritage · People

Italy puts on sale 15th-century house in Palazzo Felicini where Leonardo da Vinci lived

An Italian house where Leonardo da Vinci once lived is up for sale. The building is currently owned by a former Italian footballer. The residence in Emilia dates from the 15th century and forms part of the Palazzo Felisini. Da Vinci lived here after moving to Bologna with his patron

A black dress with a white graphic pattern of lines on a mannequin in a wood-framed glass case, with black-and-white photographs of models on the wall nearby.

NB! · Moscow · Museums · Observations · Pop Culture

1967 Outfit by Tamara Feidel and Sulamif Zaslavskaya at the “House of Fashion” Exhibition at the Museum of Moscow

In my view, this 1967 ensemble of dress and coat by Tamara Feidel and Sulamif Zaslavskaya could well have been an exhibit at the Musée des arts décoratifs de Paris, but it is on show at the Museum of Moscow, at the exhibition «Dom modelei. Industriya obrazov» [House of Fashion.

Moscow · Museums · Pop Culture · Reportage

Interactive exhibition “Punk Culture. Korol i Shut” opens at Vinzavod

A large-scale exhibition, “Punk Culture. Korol i Shut”, has opened at Winzavod. The display fills two halls and is divided into two parts: the first is about the birth of punk culture in the world (including several curious exhibits brought from private collections in London), the second is about

Architecture · Moscow · Museums · Society Pages

Exhibition of Mikhail Rozanov's Modernist Architecture Photography Opens at the Shchusev Museum

An exhibition of Mikhail Rozanov's photographs of modernist architecture has opened at the Shchusev Museum. The show by one of the most recognisable architectural photographers brings together images of the most emblematic modernist buildings from around the world. One of the characteristic features of Rozanov's work

A sheet with a quotation from Ambrose of Optina about talking in church, taped to a wooden door.

NB! · Faith · Moscow · Observations · Humour

Notice with Ambrose of Optina's instruction on silence in church on the door of a Moscow church

Nota bene on the doors of a Moscow church. Words of the saints, for the attention of those fond of a chat within the walls of the church