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The phrase “If they have no bread, let them eat cake!” was pinned on the unfortunate Marie Antoinette. The original goes back to a text by Rousseau. But the Russian Emperor Alexander I also found himself entangled in an unpleasant story, when he threw biscuits to the crowd, and people
Art · Moscow · Museums
The Battle of Dobrynya Nikitich with the Seven-Headed Zmey Gorynych. Viktor Vasnetsov, 1918. The painting is in the Vasnetsov House Museum in Moscow.
Books · Moscow · Observations · Society · Humour
A flame war is raging around the Mayakovsky Library's post for Yesenin's birthday. I see a great many angry comments about the supposedly blasphemous treatment of the poet's legacy. What chiefly outraged the public, as I understand it, was the disclaimer "do not
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“I recall one peculiar literary evening, staged by the Futurists at the Polytechnic Museum. The literary evening was presided over by two Futurists: David Burliuk and Vasily Kamensky (...) To scandalise the bourgeois, the Futurists pulled off the following trick: David Burliuk was proclaimed the father of Russian Futurism, and Vasily
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Gorlova, head of the Department of Newest Trends at the State Tretyakov Gallery, complains of a lack of funding for exhibition activity. “For the most part, it is sponsors' money,” she says. “Funding for contemporary art exhibitions, as we know, is harder still to obtain. Besides, there have been
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Do take a seat and rest. What could be better, after the first day of the CosMoscow contemporary art fair, so rich in events, discoveries, impressions, enchantments and purchases, than a puffed-up little stool from the design tandem EdxxKat?
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At the blazar young art fair, the independent artists' section presents works by Anna Kass, artist and daughter of Sergey Sobyanin. Anna is a graduate of the Stieglitz Academy and the Moscow School of Contemporary Art. Anna's photographs are on sale at 40,000 roubles each
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White-stone cannonballs found by the Kosmodemyansky Tower of the Kitay-gorod Wall in 1958. Dated to the 16th and 17th centuries. Cannonballs of this kind were fired by the stone-throwing ordnance on the walls of Moscow during its defence.
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