Art · Moscow · Museums

Door from “The Miserly Knight” insured for a million roubles at the Stanislavsky Museum

A famous door from "The Miserly Knight" has been insured for a million roubles at the Stanislavsky Museum. The production was staged by Stanislavsky's Society of Amateur Actors in the building of the English Club. Stanislavsky grew so fond of the door, made to Sologub'

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Three portraits of Marie Antoinette by a single artist, the Swedish painter Adolf Ulrik Wertmüller

Marie Antoinette sat for Wertmüller in 1785-88. He worked on commission from the Swedish king Gustav III. Besides the portrait of the queen with her children, Antoinette appeared on several other canvases. The most intimate proved to be precisely the first version. This one, by all appearances, was never

NB! · Architecture · Moscow · Museums

The marble staircase of the main building of the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts is called the pink staircase, after the colour of the marble with which it is faced

The marble staircase of the main building of the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts is called the pink staircase, after the colour of the marble with which it is faced. The variegated marbles used to finish the staircase were brought from Hungary, and the stone was purchased by the

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David by Andrea del Verrocchio and David by Donatello

David by Andrea del Verrocchio and David by Donatello. Casts of the fifteenth-century bronze originals. The Italian Courtyard of the Pushkin Museum

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Nude Beneath a Blanket

Nude beneath a blanket. Russian Empire, after a model by the Gardner porcelain manufactory, late nineteenth century

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Hand Embroidery by the Needlewomen of Kostroma for Stalin's 60th Birthday, in the Museum of the Great Kostroma Linen Manufactory

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A 1954 document on a reprimand for forgery as a possible exhibit for a Jewish Museum

I have in my possession a unique document in which a party commission examines the offence of a man who had, on his own authority, altered his nationality in his autobiography and personnel file from "Jewish" to "Russian", for himself and for his parents. Such is

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A sketch of my suit for this spring

A sketch of my suit for this spring. Slava Zaitsev. Museum of Moscow. Exhibition “The House of Fashion. An Industry of Images”

Museums · Observations · People · Saint Petersburg

Irina Antonova at the museum congress in the Hermitage, a photograph for her 101st birthday

How curious that my Instagram, in its "Memories" section, reminded me of this photograph of Irina Antonova, taken four years ago, precisely today, on the day of her 101st birthday. The picture is from the museum congress at the Hermitage: everyone was waiting for Irina Alexandrovna with a

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Pushkin Museum Opens Applications for Summer School of Inclusive Practices for Museum Professionals

For the attention of museum staff. The Pushkin Museum is opening applications for its “Summer School of Inclusive Practices”, intended for museum professionals who work on developing an accessible environment and on engaging with visitors in the modern museum. The project is open to specialists in inclusive, educational and interdisciplinary

Art · London · Museums · Ethnography

Wooden sphinx of the Haida people in the British Museum, attributed to Simeon Siltda

This wooden sphinx in the British Museum has nothing to do with Egypt. The sculpture is the work of a North American artist of the Haida, a small nation living on the islands of British Columbia. The sphinx was found in an abandoned Haida village, buried inside an empty house.

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Queen of Beasts Card from an Early Western European Deck of 1450 to 1467

A playing card showing a woman entirely covered in hair, embracing a unicorn. The drawing dates from 1450-1467 and belongs to one of the earliest Western European card packs. As you can see, fifteenth-century cards differed greatly from modern ones: you will scarcely find a suit marker here,