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Exhibition “1925–2025

The exhibition “1925–2025. One Hundred Years of Art Deco” at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris marks the centenary of the 1925 International Exhibition of Modern Decorative and Industrial Arts, from which the Art Deco style took its name and won worldwide recognition. The exhibition treats Art Deco

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Digest of December posts on comet 3I/ATLAS, the Chagall exhibition and the Decembrists

Let us recall the good things! Returning to the interesting December publications on the channel 📌 On the unification of the Christian denominations 📌 Comet 3I/ATLAS: the finest interstellar light show in history 📌 Why we buy books 📌 Chronicles of the most famous flood in Moscow 📌 “Homo homini amicus, collega et frater

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Daniel Radcliffe at the Bulgakov Museum

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Grandma Moses began painting after the age of 70 and became a renowned American artist

Anna Mary Robertson Moses, better known as Grandma Moses, was a self-taught American artist and one of the leading representatives of primitivism. Anna began to paint when she was already over 70. Almost all her life she worked on farms in the states of New York and Virginia. A

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Pavel Nashchokin's Christmas Present to Pushkin, 1832

I send you your forebear with inkwells, which open, and in opening I discover that he was a man à double vue (clear-sighted) Inkwell with a figurine of a little blackamoor: Russian work of the 1830s, collection of the Pushkin Museum-Apartment. Beside the figure of the youth stand

Mary holds the infant Christ on straw in a stable, Joseph stands beside her, a star shows in the window and a candle burns.

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The Nativity in Ilya Repin's 1890 painting from the Tretyakov Gallery collection

Merry Christmas! Heavenly grace, happiness and the light of the Star of Bethlehem to you all! Always strive towards the perfection of the Lord, and remember that there is no Saviour but Christ! Ilya Repin, The Nativity of Christ, 1890. State Tretyakov Gallery

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A restorer at work in the Tsarskoye Selo Museum-Reserve in 1984

A restorer at work in the Tsarskoye Selo Museum-Reserve in 1984. Photo by Vsevolod Tarasevich

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Polyptych “Summer”, from the cycle “The Seasons of Russian Painting”, 2007

Alexander Vinogradov and Vladimir Dubossarsky, gift of the artists to the Tretyakov Gallery

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Dostoevsky took this New Testament with him to penal servitude in Siberia

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Three exhibitions close on 18 January, while “Winter’s Tale” opens at the Tretyakov Gallery on 10 January

In our regular "Where to Go" feature, a new selection of Moscow exhibitions worth visiting this week. 📌 Closing soon: the exhibition "The Road to the Avant-Garde: Dialogues of Artists in the Journal 'A-Ya'" at the Zotov Centre, until 18 January 📌 Closing soon:

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Visited the exhibition "Arctic. Pole of Colour" at the Tretyakov Gallery on Kadashevskaya

Visited the exhibition "Arctic. Pole of Colour" at the Tretyakov Gallery on Kadashevskaya, devoted to images of the Far North in Russian art. The display is rather interesting: there are Arctic landscapes, motifs from the art of the peoples of the North, and local artists. Unusually, it also

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In 1911, Leonardo da Vinci's "Mona Lisa" Was Stolen from the Louvre

In 1911, Leonardo da Vinci's "Mona Lisa" was stolen from the Louvre. The robbery was executed with an almost caricatured simplicity. A museum employee, Vincenzo Peruggia, hid in a storeroom until closing time. With the help of two accomplices, he removed the glass case from the