Geography · Observations · Nature
So I have visited the Golubitskoye wine estate on Taman myself, the one I wrote about in connection with Alisa Ioffe's exhibition. The estate lies in an old Cossack stanitsa named after the sotnik Grigory Golubitsky, who earned in the Russo-Turkish war not only the rank of
NB! · Palaeontology · Nature · Humour
Observations · Science · Education · Nature
Julia Koricheva, Professor of Ecology at Royal Holloway, University of London, has photographed the label on a cork oak in the university arboretum. Note the spring that holds the sign loosely on its screw, so that no foreign object presses too tightly against the bark. In short, the damage done
Faith · Observations · Society · Nature
Pope Francis I, addressing TED, urges us to heed what scientists say about climate change and the need to act now to mitigate it. And, as is his custom, he appeals to our hearts, which fail to notice the suffering of the poorest and least protected amid growing inequality and
NB! · Art · Museums · Paris · Nature
If loyalty, then canine. So vivid a characterisation that the subject of a dog lying at its master's grave needs no explanation. A little-known painting by the animalier Alfred de Dreux, 1850, acquired by the Louvre in 2001.
Architecture · Faith · Geography · Observations · Heritage · Nature
Having visited Kolomna, it would be foolish not to see the place where the Moskva flows into the Oka, all the more so as it lies practically within the town limits. The surroundings are very picturesque. If you go, the road will take you past the Old Golutvin Monastery, founded
Geography · Art · Nature · Ethnography
An image of the "Sleeping Lady" mountain, photographed by drone in Canada, 30 km north-west of Anchorage, is gaining popularity online. The story of Mount Susitna is bound up with an Indian legend about a girl who suffered from unhappy love: her beloved did not return from
Archive · Mores · Nature
As you can see, in the first half of the 19th century tomatoes were still a curiosity in Russia, and an explanation was needed not only of how they were grown, but of how they were to be eaten. At that time tomatoes went by the name of “love apples”
Interviews · Museums · Heritage · Nature
Today, for the Museum Affairs series, we spoke with Nadezhda Kulakova, Director of the Griboyedov Khmelita State Museum-Reserve of History, Culture and Nature. Nadezhda Viktorovna kindly told us how Khmelita looks after its ancient trees, which were already fully grown in Griboyedov's day. - - We reported on the
NB! · Aristocracy · Heritage · Nature
Museums · Heritage · People · Nature
Not many trees that witnessed the Chekhov era have survived at Melikhovo. There are, for example, two Berlin poplars planted by the keeper and organiser of the local household, the father of the family, the former serf Pavel Yegorovich Chekhov. The peace of the two-hundred-and-fifty-year-old
Museums · Heritage · People · Nature
At Melikhovo, the Chekhov museum-reserve outside Moscow, the writer's garden and kitchen garden have been recreated. Anton Pavlovich adored farming, read horticultural and market-gardening journals and pamphlets without cease, and was proud of his agricultural achievements. In the kitchen garden right beneath the windows of Chekhov&