Architecture · Art · London · Museums
The Victoria and Albert Museum's New Storehouse Opens in London: Exhibits May Be Viewed Up Close and Without Glass, and Almost Any of the Hundreds of Thousands of Objects in Its Holdings Can Be Studied in Detail by Request in a Special Room. Among the notable exhibits are
Archive · Books · Moscow · Museums
“The bullet exited through the lower board of the binding and lodged in the book. The bullet was removed and carried off by the piece-rate dusters in 1938.” Held in the Historical Library; the book can currently be seen at the exhibition in the Department of Rare Books
Moscow · Museums · Pop Culture
Military chess, invented in the USSR in 1939, whose pieces include the regiment, platoon, army, division, company, battery, sapper, fortress, aviation and landmine. And the board is divided by a river. It can be seen in the Underground Museum of Zaryadye at the exhibition “The Chess Code”
Aristocracy · Archive · Art · Moscow · Museums
The Museum of the Defence of Moscow holds a Group Portrait of the Descendants of A.S. Pushkin Who Took Part in the Great Patriotic War, 1957, by the artist Lieutenant Colonel (retd) Vladimir Pereyaslavets. The portrait does not gather all of Pushkin's descendants who served in the
Archaeology · Art · Museums · Paris
In 1896 the Louvre bought the tiara of the Scythian king Saitaphernes for 220,000 francs. Eight of the foremost specialists in antiquity and the history of art pronounced it a masterpiece and assured everyone that it would become the pride of the Louvre. The Imperial Museum in Vienna had
Architecture · Faith · Museums · Heritage
The Kirillo-Belozersky Museum-Reserve has reopened its seventeenth-century fortress walls and towers to visitors following the completion of restoration. Some of them had been closed since the 1970s owing to their dilapidated condition. For the first time since the walls were built, the foundations have been reinforced, the
In the Press · Art · Moscow · Museums · Saint Petersburg
The top ten most visited museums in the country looks like this: 1. Peterhof 2. Tsarskoye Selo 3. Saint Isaac's Cathedral 4. Russian Museum 5. Hermitage 6. Tretyakov Gallery 7. Tsaritsyno 8. Museum of the History of Saint Petersburg 9. Museum of the World Ocean (Kaliningrad) 10. Island-
Art · Museums · Observations · Rome
In the collection of the National Roman Museum there is an extraordinary block of marble with a relief of a half-naked woman being raised up by two handmaidens whose heads and shoulders, alas, have been knocked off. This monument of the 5th century BC is usually called the Ludovisi
NB! · Art · Monarchies · Museums · Education · People
Cosimo III de' Medici placed the Russian pensioner Ivan Nikitin in the academy of the painter Tommaso Redi. It was here that Nikitin painted a portrait of Peter I, who had sent him to study; the picture is in the collection of the Uffizi
Coming Up · The East · Art · Museums
The New Jerusalem Museum has opened "Light Between Worlds", a large-scale exhibition project that brings together two significant but little-studied collections of art of the 1920s and 1930s: that of the I.V. Savitsky Museum of Arts of the Republic of Karakalpakstan and that of the
Archaeology · Moscow · Museums
Specialists have completed the restoration and scholarly study of a hoard of sixteenth-century copper coins. It was found by the capital's archaeologists on Bolshaya Tatarskaya Street. Archaeological investigations were carried out here at several excavation sites at once in 2023–2024. An important part of the find
NB! · London · Museums · Observations · Heritage
The British Museum is simply a whole mountain of random things that were carried off from other countries and cultures. It only strengthens the view that being British is nothing to be proud of. The only thing that was British was the enormous queue at the entrance