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Mikhail Kozakov and Oleg Tabakov
Mikhail Kozakov and Oleg Tabakov. The MKhAT hostel, 1956
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Perhaps the story of Lebedev-Kumach's madness is one of the most frequently retold memories of the hasty, chaotic and frightening evacuation of Moscow 80 years ago, when German troops closed in on the city's lines of defence and everyone in the capital…
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Meanwhile, in the Great Wine Cellar, that is, at the Winzavod Centre for Contemporary Art, an exhibition of the nominees for the Anatoly Zverev Prize is being prepared, running from 19 October to 21 November
Meanwhile, in the Great Wine Cellar, that is, at the Winzavod Centre for Contemporary Art, an exhibition of the nominees for the Anatoly Zverev Prize is being prepared, running from 19 October to 21 November. The photograph shows, besides the smiling gallerist Alina Pinskaya, the artist Evgeny Muzalevsky beside his
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The Gilyarovsky Foundation space on Stoleshnikov Lane has opened a pre-auction exhibition, One Woman and The Other; the auction itself will take place there on the evening of the 20th
The Gilyarovsky Foundation space on Stoleshnikov Lane has opened a pre-auction exhibition, One Woman and The Other; the auction itself will take place there on the evening of the 20th. As the title makes plain, the works are exclusively by women artists. We have already seen a few all-
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Or, as the public prefers to think, Stalin's sewage bunker
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The Museum of Russian Impressionism has a bright, rich exhibition, Other Shores: Russian Art in New York, about the 1924 show that introduced the American public to Konchalovsky, Lentulov, Petrov-Vodkin, Polenov, Yuon, Vasnetsov…
The Museum of Russian Impressionism has a bright, rich exhibition, Other Shores: Russian Art in New York, about the 1924 show that introduced the American public to Konchalovsky, Lentulov, Petrov-Vodkin, Polenov, Yuon, Vasnetsov, Kustodiev, Arkhipov, Larionov, Grabar, Saryan and other outstanding names of Russian art. It was not the
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The Coat of Arms of the Russian Empire Made of Insects, 1842, Presented by an Author from Slovenia to His Colleagues, the Moscow Naturalists
Over the long years the picture has been restored more than once, and by our day all the insects, originally natives of the Illyrian Provinces, have been replaced by insects born, lived and died on Russian soil. One might say that this curious heraldic trinket has, in the end, become
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Alexander Chubaryan, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences; Ramzan Kadyrov, Academician of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences; and Karen Shakhnazarov, Academician of the National Academy of Motion Picture Arts
Alexander Chubaryan, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences; Ramzan Kadyrov, Academician of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences; and Karen Shakhnazarov, Academician of the National Academy of Motion Picture Arts. A photograph from the Kremlin reception held in November 2019, on the day the Prize for the Strengthening of
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Church of the Life-Giving Trinity in Vishnyaki on Pyatnitskaya Street, Moscow, built in 1815
How beautiful Russian churches are 💜. Church of the Life-Giving Trinity in Vishnyaki, Moscow, Pyatnitskaya Street. The Neoclassical building was erected in 1815
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The white-stone foundation of the Kitay-gorod wall, in the underground passage at the metro exit towards Zaryadye
The white-stone foundation of the Kitay-gorod wall, in the underground passage at the metro exit towards Zaryadye. In its day, in the sixteenth century, Kitay-gorod was one of the mightiest Russian fortresses: on a wall six to seven metres thick, two teams of horses could pass each
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The artist Vladimir Seleznev, in the company of the curator Vladislav Efimov, talks about his project "Oseyev", devoted to an invented utopian metropolis, the result of uncontrolled standardised building on urban land, which proved to be unwanted and fell
The artist Vladimir Seleznev, in the company of the curator Vladislav Efimov, talks about his project "Oseyev", devoted to an invented utopian metropolis, the result of uncontrolled standardised building on urban land, which proved to be unwanted and fell into decline. Seleznev problematises the frenzied mass construction in
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