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From the famous Prigov: “Just stepped out of the bath, and already I remember nothing”

From the famous Prigov: “Just stepped out of the bath, and already I remember nothing.” A month is built much the same way. So let me propose recalling the main things from April's publications in the digest. 🎭 At the Taganka Theatre, Alexander Zolotovitsky has staged “Three Sisters”, in

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Fidel Castro and the ballerina Maya Plisetskaya after a performance of Swan Lake

On 27 April 1963 Castro flew secretly to Murmansk in a Tu-114 and spent forty days in the USSR, the first visit by the Cuban leader to the Soviet Union. Khrushchev needed to mend relations after the Cuban Missile Crisis: six months earlier Moscow had withdrawn its missiles from

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Ilyukhina, that photo where you seem to be sneaking into the Kremlin is legendary

In real life, one ought to be rather careful with such objects, of course. Besides fines and arrest, such a prank could carry several other cheerless consequences: a preventive entry in the databases of the security services, registration with a psychiatrist, referral for compulsory psychiatric evaluation and, naturally, compensation for

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Small-scale plastic art is seldom the star of a museum display

Small-scale plastic art is seldom the star of a museum display. Yet for how much these works can tell us about the history and culture of a country, few things can compare. This week's recommendations are devoted to exhibitions of coins and medals that deserve particular attention,

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And what is wrong with the short-term memory of all those Muscovites who have fallen into hysterics over snow at the end of April?

And what is wrong with the short-term memory of all those Muscovites who have fallen into hysterics over snow at the end of April? It falls, as a matter of fact, quite regularly even in June

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Remembering Election Night in March 2018

I remember Election Night in March 2018. It was his sixth presidential defeat, yet Zhirinovsky climbs onto the stage without any visible disappointment. A short speech on how the political landscape would change in the years ahead. We applaud more out of inertia: the result has been announced, though everything

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Dzerzhinsky Square during the days of the GKChP, 20–21 August 1991, photograph by Sergey Rusanov

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My last remaining nerve cell, in the form of a falling column from the Colonnade grove at Versailles, reminds us of our regular feature, where for the third year running we have been planning the week's leisure in Moscow and other cultured cities

🌆On 21 April the Art Moscow fair opens, in case anyone still has money left for art. 🧱From 21 April the Shchusev Museum of Architecture is showing the paintings of Nadezhda Krestinina 👑From 21 April to 5 July the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts continues its 25-year tradition

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Alexy II and Yury Luzhkov at the opening of the Moscow Ring Road after its reconstruction in September 1998

When it opened in 1962, the MKAD (the Moscow Ring Road) was considered a cutting-edge highway by Soviet standards. It had two lanes in each direction and a broad grass strip down the middle as a divider, and 33 cloverleaf interchanges were built along its length. It was said

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My beloved Foreign Ministry is under the scaffolding again

My beloved Foreign Ministry is being cleaned again. In a couple of years it will be all white

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The Company of the Konstantin Stanislavsky Opera Theatre before the Set for the Production of "Eugene Onegin" in 1936

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The universal favourite, the rubric, is back with you, and this week we are heading to:

🦖The solo exhibition by Rinat Volgami, "Wind", at Gallery 11.12 🌎Dani Pirogov's exhibition "Light Comes from Underground" at the Futuro gallery 🩺The contemporary art exhibition "Together" at Skolkovo 🏺The exhibition "Vladimir Salnikov and Nina Kotel. Two" at the Blar