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Grishin’s memoirs “From Khrushchev to Gorbachev” compared with possible memoirs by Sobyanin
And you know, I simply cannot imagine Sobyanin ever writing anything like Grishin's memoirs, "From Khrushchev to Gorbachev". They are simply men of a different stamp
Archive · Moscow · Society
Viktor Grishin's 1975 visit to the play “Fasten Your Seat Belts!” at the Taganka Theatre
The story of Viktor Grishin, for many years the master of Moscow, visiting the Taganka Theatre in 1975 has long since been overgrown with conjecture and turned into legend. The play itself, “Fasten Your Seat Belts!”, which openly mocked the failings of the Soviet system, stayed in the theatre'
Art · Moscow · Museums · People
Anniversary of the death of sculptor Sergey Konenkov, who returned from the USA to the USSR
Today is the anniversary of the death of the Russian artist and sculptor Sergey Timofeyevich Konenkov, who died in his 98th year on 9 December 1971. The outstanding master lived and worked in the USA for more than twenty years. He returned to the USSR with all his works aboard
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A table service from the Kuskovo collection, made in Saint Petersburg to the order of Catherine II, is now on display at the Château de Champs-sur-Marne in the suburbs of Paris
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"All four of us sisters wore mourning for two years
"All four of us sisters wore mourning for two years. Nowadays the proprieties are observed poorly, but in my time everything was done strictly, and according to the proverb, 'count your kinship and render it its honour', kinship was reckoned most exactly, and when a relation died,
Coming Up · Cinema · Moscow · Observations
Moscow Planetarium in the Film “Nezhny vozrast” and a Recommendation to Visit
In the film "Tender Age", the protagonist Kir Lopukhov, on the day before leaving for the front, says: "How can it be? A true Muscovite, and I have never once been to the planetarium." And on his last day in his native home he leaves his
Aristocracy · Faith · Moscow · Mores · Humour
Prince Yusupov served the Moscow Metropolitan goose instead of fish and lost half his property
Abdul Mirza Yusufov, christened Dmitry and granted the title of Prince Yusupov by Feodor Ioannovich, once decided to play a joke on the Metropolitan of Moscow and served him goose on a fast day in the guise of fish. The Metropolitan was deeply offended and petitioned the Tsar to punish
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A lady at her dressing table in a painting by Nicolas Lancret, early 18th century
Spent half a day with Mamma in the cosmetics halls of TsUM and am already fit to advise Madame Geoffrin on matters of beauty. Nicolas Lancret, early eighteenth century
Archive · Art · Moscow · Museums
Ostroukhov's study of a horse, taken for a Velázquez, proved to be by Van Dyck
Ilya Ostroukhov, former director of the Tretyakov Gallery, acquired in the 1920s an unusual study of a bored horse for his collection, having swapped it for a study of Menippus. Ostroukhov was immensely proud of his purchase, believing he had secured so original a Velázquez for his private collection, until
NB! · Architecture · Faith · Moscow
In St Basil's Cathedral there are steps in front of the windows; in fact this is an architects' ruse to increase the insolation of the church interiors: a stepped surface reflects more sunlight
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A Work by Ivan Zabelin, Written on Commission from the Moscow City Duma
A work by Ivan Zabelin, written on commission from the Moscow City Duma. Happy City Day!