Moscow · Observations · Mores · Society Pages
The gallery of photographs of distinguished guests at Pirosmani, the oldest Georgian restaurant in Moscow, has a new addition: Inna Churikova and Gleb Panfilov among friends. Every new reality, after all, has its own aesthetic hallmarks by which future generations will easily recognise its milestones, rather as in: “Dear friends,
Moscow · Museums · Observations · Society
The news dates from the end of November, when one could still visit museums after a fashion, but all the same: ticket revenue at the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts fell by almost 70% in 2020 compared with the previous year. What are other museums to do, those without
NB! · Books · Moscow · Observations
Well, my dears, the book is finally out. Thank you all for waiting alongside me. I bought my own copy at the Moskva bookshop, but I hope it will turn up in other bookshops too 💓
Coming Up · Moscow · Observations · Society
Among the forthcoming cultural events, I have noted the musical production by Evgenia Berkovich, "Esther's Black Book", which the Brusnikin troupe will perform at the Boyar Chambers on 9 and 11 December. The staging is devoted to the theme of xenophobia; the action unfolds outside time
Moscow · Observations · Heritage · Society · Nature
The remarkable Moscow scholar Maria Survillo has drawn attention to the destruction of trees on the grounds of the Donskoy Monastery. Dreadful, tragic, irreparable. How cynically and methodically the image of old Moscow and the evidence of its former beauty are being destroyed 😣 P.S. To the champions of the
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Art · Moscow · Observations · Heritage
Quietly and without idle applause, a great date in world theatrical history has passed: the Academic Children's Musical Theatre named after Natalia Sats has turned 55. It is the first professional musical theatre for children in the world, a theatre that for the first time in history devoted
Books · Moscow · People
On 13 March 1890 the student Konstantin Dmitrievich Balmont threw himself from a window of the Louvre furnished rooms on Tverskaya and survived, getting off with a broken leg that would leave him limping for many years. Perhaps this is a touch of belletristic exaggeration, but Balmont's limp
Architecture · Moscow · Observations
A photograph by Alexandr Kadochnikov that has gone viral: the dome of the Paveletskaya metro pavilion huddles in the embrace of the building at 43/16, Building 1, Novokuznetskaya. The pavilion itself occupies the ground floors of a house that was completed four years after the station was built. Most
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Towards the close of the day, in the manner of a "farewell tour", I looked in on the opening of the Rosizo exhibition "Trin-trava" at the Turgenev-Botkin mansion in Petroverigsky Lane. There are some interesting interpretations of the Russian style, but on the whole
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Photographs from the exhibition on the letter Ё at the Slovo pavilion, VDNKh. A very atmospheric and coherent picture. It is a pity that we shall soon be deprived of public cultural life altogether, though visiting museums is, of course, hundreds of times safer than going to shops and restaurants,