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A digital artist imagines how the Ryabushinsky mansion might look in Europe
The Ryabushinsky Mansion, had it lived in Europe. The building is imaginary, created by a digital artist
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Architecture · Moscow · Observations
Tribune Tower in Chicago, a neo-Gothic skyscraper of the 1920s, converted into apartments
If only all skyscrapers looked even half as impressive and majestic as the Tribune Tower in Chicago, Illinois. The neo-Gothic tower was built in the 1920s and is the most emblematic building in Chicago. These days the skyscraper has been converted into residential apartments. It must be said that
Archive · Moscow · Society · Nature
Pigeon feeders in 1950s Moscow and the decision to cull the birds after the youth festival
In the 1950s, Moscow was full of pigeon feeders like this one in Sokolniki. One could come across a sign in the city reading “Caution, pigeons!”. But a couple of years after thousands of pigeons were released at the opening of the World Festival of Youth and Students, there turned
Cinema · Books · Moscow · Humour
The famous restaurant guide of Duchemin, France's most authoritative restaurant critic, in the hilarious comedy "The Wing or the Thigh" with Louis de Funès, somehow ended up in Moscow in the same display case as Stepan Veselovsky's…
The famous restaurant guide of Duchemin, France's most authoritative restaurant critic, in the hilarious comedy "The Wing or the Thigh" with Louis de Funès, somehow ended up in Moscow in the same display case as Stepan Veselovsky's reference work on persons who served under
NB! · Architecture · Moscow · Observations
The hall at GES-2 really is very beautiful, even if the iron doors clang rather too loudly
Architecture · Faith · Cinema · Moscow
Zhenya Lukashin's house and the Church of the Archangel Michael in Troparyovo, southwest Moscow
Where on Tretya Ulitsa Stroiteley in "The Irony of Fate" is the church, apparently of the eighteenth century? Let us take this in order. Tretya Ulitsa Stroiteley (Third Builders' Street), where Zhenya Lukashin lives, is today called ulitsa Marii Ulyanovoy, lying between Leninsky Prospekt and Prospekt Vernadskogo,
NB! · Moscow · Observations
December Smiles upon Muscovites
Coming Up · Art · Moscow · Observations
Interest in contemporary art has long proved that fairs and exhibitions are events not only for professionals and old hands of the art market, but also for a great many people with no connection to art, or only just beginning their acquaintance with…
Interest in contemporary art has long proved that fairs and exhibitions are events not only for professionals and old hands of the art market, but also for a great many people with no connection to art, or only just beginning their acquaintance with young, living artists. Among my acquaintances, many
Aristocracy · Faith · Monarchies · Moscow · Observations · Society Pages
I know three days have already passed, but I cannot help sharing this little gem from the christening of Georgy Mikhailovich Romanov's heir, Prince Alexander, in the Transfiguration Church of the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour
I know three days have already passed, but I cannot help sharing this little gem from the christening of Georgy Mikhailovich Romanov's heir, Prince Alexander, in the Transfiguration Church of the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour. The boy was born on 21 October and named after his great-
NB! · Coming Up · Moscow · Museums
The State Historical Museum has launched a website on the history of the Cossack hosts
A Museum of the Cossacks will soon open in Moscow, and in the meantime the State Historical Museum has launched a website devoted to Cossack history, which sets out, year by year, facts about the Cossack hosts that have existed in the country. The information may not be the most
Moscow · Museums · Observations · Society
Two Museums at Moscow Waste Processing Plants Have Collected Over 400 Discarded Items
From time to time the news carries reports that some masterpiece has been found among the rubbish. Not long ago in Bavaria, originals by the Dutch artist Samuel van Hoogstraten and the Italian Pietro Bellotti were discovered in a dustbin. We, too, have something to boast about: two museums holding
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