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A Covid Scarecrow in the Tchaikovsky Concert Hall
A Covid scarecrow in the Tchaikovsky Concert Hall. They say that the innovation of the organisers from the Moscow Ensemble of Contemporary Music is in fact some fearfully expensive and elaborate microphone. I am in the eighth row, in the eighth row, do pick me out, maestro!
Coming Up · Art · Moscow · People
Works by Kyiv artist Nelli Isupova at the Rituals exhibition in Moscow
Several years ago Vogue Ukraine ran a piece on the celebrated Kyiv artist Nelli Isupova. The vivid, instantly recognisable works of this woman, who became one of the centres of cultural life in the Ukrainian capital and stood at the origins of the artistic destiny of Andriivsky Descent, can at
NB! · Moscow · Museums · Pop Culture
Google Congratulates the State Historical Museum on Its 150th Anniversary
NB! · Architecture · Moscow · Mores · Humour
Thanks to an advertisement on Avito, the anecdote about Varvara Alekseyevna Morozova acquires a new ring. After her feckless son Arseny built a florid mansion on Vozdvizhenka, she told him: "Before, I alone knew that you were a fool, but now the whole of
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An allegorical portrait of Dante, painted in 1532‒1533 by the Medici court artist Agnolo Bronzino, will be on show in Moscow at the Voznesensky Centre until 20 February, in an exhibition curated by the Pushkin Museum's chief research fellow Victoria Marko
An allegorical portrait of Dante, painted in 1532‒1533 by the Medici court artist Agnolo Bronzino, will be on show in Moscow at the Voznesensky Centre until 20 February, in an exhibition curated by the Pushkin Museum's chief research fellow Victoria Markova. The painting, which was considered lost
Moscow · Museums · Observations · Pop Culture
At the Manege, on a very high level, runs the exhibition "Viktor Tsoi
At the Manege, on a very high level, runs the exhibition "Viktor Tsoi. The Hero's Path", with a beautiful audiovisual narrative about the life and work of the poet. The exhibition includes personal belongings, recordings, drawings and artefacts. Serious research has gone into it. I was
NB! · Archive · Cinema · Moscow
Deleted Scenes from the Film "Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears"
Art · Cinema · Moscow · Museums
A Remarkable Discovery!
A remarkable discovery! One of the opening scenes of Sergei Parajanov's comedy "The First Lad" repeats, down to the last detail, Tatyana Yablonskaya's famous painting "Bread". The composition, the placing of the figures, the colour scheme, even the blue hem tucked up
Architecture · Art · Moscow · Heritage
Monument to Minin and Pozharsky Dismantled on Red Square
The sculptural group, 4.5 m high, has left its pedestal for the first time in 200 years. The monument has been dismantled for restoration. The restoration of the sculptures is expected to last until November 2022, at a cost of 55 million roubles. The money for the restoration, as
NB! · Coming Up · Aristocracy · Monarchies · Moscow · Observations
Happy, cheerful, playful: the Duke and Duchess of Windsor set us all a fine example that life should be taken more lightly, and all the more so as Slava Polunin's show is about to return to Moscow
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In this dress in 1936-37 Maria Petrovna Lilina, wife of Konstantin Stanislavsky, played Countess Vronskaya in the Moscow Art Theatre's production of "Anna Karenina"
In this dress in 1936-37 Maria Petrovna Lilina, wife of Konstantin Stanislavsky, played Countess Vronskaya in the Moscow Art Theatre's production of "Anna Karenina". The dress was Lilina's personal property, part of her mother's legacy, brought from Paris in her youth,