Books · Moscow · Society
The Russian State Library is to receive the functions of the Book Chamber. Until now, the Russian Book Chamber has been a branch of ITAR-TASS. The document has been signed by Mishustin.
NB! · Art · Moscow · Museums
Demonstration, Alexander Monin, 1924. From the exhibition “VKhUTEMAS 100. School of the Avant-Garde” at the Museum of Moscow
NB! · Art · Moscow · People
As for painters and leaders: when Stalin lay in state in the Hall of Columns, Alexander Gerasimov (1881-1963) sat beside the coffin with his sketch box, drawing a portrait of the Generalissimo. Other artists stood nearby with their easels, and all of them painted the immortal Stalin in his
Architecture · Moscow · Observations · Humour
The famous bas-relief on the façade of the Nikitskaya electrical substation of the metro, designed by Fridman in 1934-35, was popular with several generations of Muscovites for its daring and its symbolism. It strikes me as an excellent opportunity to paraphrase "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of
Architecture · Geography · Moscow · Heritage
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Architecture · Art · Moscow · Observations · Heritage
The entrance to the Central Economics and Mathematics Institute building on Nakhimovsky Prospekt in Moscow has been fenced off; it is not in use at present. I took the trouble to walk over specially, to capture a living legend while it is still one. Last year there was talk of
Art · Moscow · Observations · Society Pages
Dropped into the cosy Sample fair at Strelka and once again confirmed my observation that very many people have taken up ceramics. Not far from LotyLoty I found almost the same plates, only by the singer Lisokot. I wanted the silk masks at 2,500, but they had already been
Architecture · Art · Moscow · Museums · Observations
I was recalling today how, on the first day the memorial museum-studio of Pyotr Konchalovsky opened, we went there on a tour with Club 418. A couple of days later, it seems, the decree closing the museums was issued. So we were lucky to get in in time. This
Architecture · Art · Moscow
The Fire of Moscow in 1812, by the Russian artist of Polish origin Viktor Mazurovsky. Note the walls of the Kremlin, which are clearly red here. If so, this is an error on the part of the painter, for in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries the Kremlin walls and towers
Architecture · Moscow · Heritage · Society
Will the cosiest district in Moscow turn into yet another cluster of glass skyscrapers? In Khamovniki, at the junction of Rossolimo Street and Olsufyevsky Lane, a residential complex a hundred metres tall may be built. That is 30 metres higher than the bell tower of the Novodevichy Convent. The house
Architecture · Books · Moscow · Science · Society
Literary critic and editor of the magazine "Znanie-Sila" Olga Balla writes that this Saturday the editorial office is being evicted from the seventeenth-century chambers on Kozhevnicheskaya Street, where it had been based for several decades. The magazine itself has existed since 1926 and is one of