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Letter from Petya and Vova to the Crocodile about the Berezayka river and a chemical factory

Dear Crocodile, we need you very much. We have a little river. Next to it there is a big chemical factory. It is spoiling the river, and soon there will be no river, only one big inkwell. We are writing to you because you are held in great esteem. Come

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Something Strange at the Institute of Art History

Something strange at the Institute of Art History. No one will own up to whose brushes these are

Coming Up · Art · Moscow · Observations

Gosha Ostretsov’s exhibition “Utopia” opens at the Institute of Art History on Kozitsky

At the Institute of Art History on Kozitsky Lane, Gosha Ostretsov's exhibition "Utopia" has opened, a sort of itinerary through the artist's universe, with works from the 1990s to the 2020s. In the absence of a curatorial text, all that remains is to watch

Archive · Moscow · Education

Moscow: A City of Universal Literacy

Photo collage, 1934

Archive · Architecture · Moscow · Mores

Central Market on Tsvetnoy Boulevard in Moscow from wooden stalls to demolition

A Muscovite Woman Choosing a Birch Broom at the Central Market in 1958. The Central Moscow Market stood at 15 Tsvetnoy Boulevard and at that time still operated out of wooden pavilions, before the construction of the city's first permanent covered market building. The multi-storey market was

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“Flowers. Symbol of Beauty” at the Tretyakov Gallery on Kadashevskaya Embankment until 18 October

At the Tretyakov Gallery on Kadashevskaya Embankment, a touching exhibition, "Flowers. A Symbol of Beauty", is running without much fuss, devoted entirely to the presence of flowers in Russian art. It opens with Kramskoy's "Bouquet of Flowers. Phloxes" of 1884, the only pure flower

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In October 1944 the head of the Ancient East department of the Pushkin Museum submitted an official memorandum to the museum's director about a business trip to the town of Sukhoy Log in the Sverdlovsk region

In October 1944 the head of the Ancient East department of the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts submitted an official memorandum to the museum's director about a business trip to the town of Sukhoy Log in the Sverdlovsk region. Vsevolod Pavlov, a specialist in Ancient Egypt who had

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Chief Accountant of the University Appointed Acting Rector of GITIS

A room with green walls, patterned red curtains, a desk by the window, yellow armchairs, a red carpet behind a rope barrier and a chandelier.

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Lenin’s Study at the Gorki Estate Museum Keeps the Furnishings of Zinaida Morozova

Lenin's study at the Lenin Museum-Estate at Gorki. The handsomeness of the furnishings owes everything to the fact that they survive from the estate's pre-revolutionary mistress, Zinaida Morozova, with the exception of the clothed office desk delivered specially for Ilyich

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OURS: The Turbulent Growth of Socialist Construction, Tens of Millions of Collective Farmers, the Energy and Enthusiasm of Millions, the Creative Enthusiasm of the Masses

THEIRS: Crisis, unemployment, hunger, destitution and the preparation of war against the USSR. And mind you don't mix them up! A two-part poster by the artists Gleb Grigoryev and Boris Iordansky on the not yet demolished Iverskaya or Voskresenskiye Gates in the wall of Kitay-gorod. Photograph

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Monthly digest for July on discoveries, restoration, art and science

Fet begged to “drive the living boat off with a single push”, to catch the fleeting before it vanishes. The monthly digest has a more modest task, though the same one: to hold on to what matters before the flood of news washes it away. Here is the main news

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Quotations from Great Men

Quotations from Great Men. The Lenin Library