Coming Up · Art · Moscow · Museums
Spirit Labor, dedicated to the memory of Nikita Alexeev, brings together 40 works by the best-known artists from various countries who have explored time. The curators are Andrey Misiano and Snezhana Krasteva. Among the authors are the greatest names in world art, from Yury Albert to On Kawara, and
NB! · Faith · Books · Moscow · Society Pages
Alexey Dmitrievich Dostoevsky, Captain of the Valaam Monastery Fleet and bass guitarist, at the unveiling of the monument to his great-grandfather, Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky, outside the Dostoevsky bookshop on Sapozhkovskaya Square by the walls of the Kremlin. In the photograph, both Dostoevskys stand behind the substantial figure of Igor
Coming Up · Art · Books · Moscow · Observations
Tomorrow at 6.30 p.m. a new monument to Fyodor Mikhailovich is due to be unveiled beside the "Dostoevsky" bookshop; this year he is, after all, 200. The previous Dostoevsky sits literally 20 metres away, on the little patch by the Lenin Library, where he has been
Coming Up · Moscow · Observations
While I am at the "Tolstoy" theatre festival at Yasnaya Polyana, the "Lyubimovka" festival of young dramatists is running in Moscow until 10 September. Readings of plays are held at the Sovremennik Theatre; admission is free, by registration, which opens the day before each event, and
Moscow · Observations
Kirill Serebrennikov writes that the Moscow Art Theatre (MKhT) has dropped Zoyka's Apartment from its repertoire after nine years. It is the only production I saw five times, beginning with the premiere and going on watching it for years, and I would gladly have gone again.
Art · Moscow · Observations · Society Pages
In "Triumph" by the company Second Act it is Shere Khan's pelt from a fragmented post-dramatic "Mowgli", embroidered by the hands of volunteers. Congratulations to the Meyerhold Centre on the opening of its new season!
Coming Up · Art · Moscow · Observations
To give strength to the weak and cast the mighty into nothingness, To take happiness from the happy, to raise the obscure suddenly to greatness, To straighten a bent frame or bend the back of the proud -. Easy work for a pentatroch. Alexander Kutovoy has created an entire universe and,
Archive · Architecture · Moscow · Education · Humour
The Historical and Archival Institute. A photograph from the late 1990s: 25 October Street has only recently become Nikolskaya Street again, but has not yet become the pedestrian one we know today 1995: not yet 2000: still no 2005: no, not yet 2010: not for the moment 2013: hurrah! Nikolskaya
Cinema · Moscow · Mores · Society
In the film "Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears", which begins in 1958, we meet the girls working at a factory. The heroine, Katerina Tikhomirova, who has come from the provinces, becomes not merely a fitter but a setter-operator. That, however, is another matter altogether: different circumstances,
Architecture · Moscow · Heritage · Society Pages · Humour
In the year of its centenary, the Library of Foreign Literature has at last opened the restored late eighteenth-century house at Nikoloyamskaya, 6. The whole official upper crust of culture turned out for the occasion: the minister, deputies, heads of federal agencies, directors of institutions. Even Vladimir Medinsky sent
Architecture · Moscow · Humour
you just open random pages of books on heraldry and semiotics: "oh, that's pretty, let's have it on the façade", "oh, an eagle. Stick that on too", "a mascaron? Is that some sort of dessert?", "Masonic boots? We'
NB! · Coming Up · Moscow · Observations · Pop Culture · Humour
An unexpected greeting from the "Field of Miracles" Museum: Leonid Yakubovich advertises the premiere of Lavr at the Gorky Moscow Art Theatre. Such a touching merger of two forgotten universes that I quite wanted to reread Doronina's letter to Putin.