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Exhibition on the VKhUTEMAS Architecture Faculty on View at the Shchusev Museum of Architecture

At the Shchusev Museum of Architecture, a long-awaited major exhibition devoted to the Architecture Faculty of VKhUTEMAS. Who, if not MUAR, should show the genuine masterpieces of the Vkhutemas students, and at last it has come to pass. Moreover, this project looks far more advantageous than the exhibition on

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Pavel Pepperstein’s exhibition “Visions of Stars” on three floors of the Ekaterina Foundation

I went to Pavel Pepperstein's exhibition "Visions of Stars" at the Ekaterina Foundation. I must say it has been a long time since an exhibition project pleased me so thoroughly from beginning to end. One would think that Pepperstein is always highly recognisable and even somewhat

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Watch and listen to me tonight at 00:10 on Moscow 24

Watch and listen to me tonight at 00:10 on Moscow 24. It ought to be interesting 🙄

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Lenin in the VKhUTEMAS hostel on 25 February 1921, arguing with the students about Futurism, Mayakovsky and the future of art

Lenin in the VKhUTEMAS hostel on 25 February 1921, arguing with the students about Futurism, Mayakovsky and the future of art. Behind him stands Nadezhda Krupskaya in a pale blue dress. A very beautiful work by Alexey Sotnikov, 1965, from a very rich exhibition marking the centenary of VKhUTEMAS

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Not a Bad Berth at the Moscow Bookshop

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Meyerhold's complimentary pass led GUM clerk Nemolyaev to the theatre and VGIK

How chance intervened in the life of Volodya Nemolyayev, a humble clerk and graduate of the Lomonosov Technical School (formerly the Imperial Komissarov School). Meyerhold presented the nimble GUM employee with a complimentary pass to any ten performances, and the young man fell wholeheartedly in love with the theatre and

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In Moscow an unheard-of cold snap by the standards of our times, in Versailles, fogs

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In the courtyard of the Institute of History and Archives on Nikolskaya Street (remember that Gothic blue façade with the unicorn, the lion and the spires?) there is a small building in the Russian style, a terem

In the courtyard of the Institute of History and Archives on Nikolskaya Street (remember that Gothic blue façade with the unicorn, the lion and the spires?) there is a small building in the Russian style, a terem. In the days of the Print Yard, the terem housed the proofreading workshop

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I had only two photos from "Batman vs Brezhnev" at the Teatr na Bronnoy in my stories (yes, yes, I never break the rules and do not film during a performance), but even that was enough to bring a barrage of questions: a Batman projection on the stage curt

I had only two photos from "Batman vs Brezhnev" at the Teatr na Bronnoy in my stories (yes, yes, I never break the rules and do not film during a performance), but even that was enough to bring a barrage of questions: a Batman projection on the stage

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A simple story at the Garage Triennial of Contemporary Art: the friendship of two creators, the Russian painter of the Arctic Alexander Borisov (1866-1934) and the Nenets self-taught talent, the first artist of Novaya Zemlya, Tyko Vylka (1886-1960)

A simple story at the Garage Triennial of Contemporary Art: the friendship of two creators, the Russian painter of the Arctic Alexander Borisov (1866-1934) and the Nenets self-taught talent, the first artist of Novaya Zemlya, Tyko Vylka (1886-1960). Vylka learned to draw from a tear-off calendar

Brick vaults in a dark underground space lit by a torch, with a smaller arch and a heap of broken bricks below.

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Visit to the underground vaults of the Kitay-gorod Wall, with a lower level filled with bricks

Visited the underground chambers of the Kitay-gorod Wall. Atmospheric, slightly eerie: a whole city beneath the earth indeed, with yet another city below it, though that one has long since been filled in with bricks.

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Vasily Lanovoy in June 2018

Vasily Lanovoy in June 2018. He was speaking about the destruction of the Vakhtangov Theatre during the bombing in the summer of 1941. Lanovoy turned 87 this year. Today Irina Kupchenko announced the death of her husband: Vasily Semyonovich has passed away