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Nikolai Sapunov’s Work “Still Life with a Self-Portrait”, 1910–1911
I very much liked this painting at the new exhibition at the In Artibus foundation marking the centenary of Dmitry Vladimirovich Sarabyanov. The work is Nikolay Sapunov's "Still Life with a Self-Portrait", 1910-1911. You have to look very closely to find the self-portrait
Art · Books · Museums · Observations
The Jewish Museum invites visitors to look at art through the prism of Kafka's work
The Jewish Museum invites visitors to look at art through the prism of Kafka's work. At the entrance they hand out booklets, one red and one brown. The two routes, we are told, are built on the story "The Metamorphosis" and the novel "The Trial&
NB! · Observations
Did You Recognise Yourself?
Cinema · Books · Observations
Frodo Baggins Was 33 When He Received the Ring of Power
He set out from Rivendell for Mount Doom only 17 years later. All that time Gandalf was gathering information about the Ring. Thus the Ring was destroyed when Frodo was already past 50. In the film adaptation, all of this took no more than a couple of weeks, or three
Architecture · Geography · Observations
The Most Crooked Street in the World: Lombard Street in San Francisco
The street descends from Russian Hill, a city hill named Russian Hill because of an old Russian cemetery on its summit. The cemetery dated from the time of Russian colonisation of America; buried here were Russian merchants, sailors and soldiers from Fort Ross (known to the Americans as Fort Ross)
NB! · Moscow · Museums · Observations · Humour
Folding stools for visitors to rest on have appeared in the Pushkin Museum galleries
Mobile chairs for visitors at the Pushkin Museum. So that, having sat down to rest, you need not fret that you have taken someone's workplace
Books · Moscow · Observations · People
I saw "Living T." at the Theatre of Nations, with Dmitry Lysenkov playing Protasov, more or less
I saw "Living T." at the Theatre of Nations, with Dmitry Lysenkov playing Protasov, more or less. It is ostensibly a staging of Leo Tolstoy's play "The Living Corpse", but the T. is meant to stand for "Living Tolstoy". Accordingly, the protagonist
NB! · Moscow · Observations
Moscow: A City of Contrasts
Aristocracy · Archive · Monarchies · Observations
Diana's brother Charles Spencer shares a photograph from the family archive showing Queen Mary of Teck surrounded by the Spencers during her visit to their ancestral seat, Althorp House
Diana's brother Charles Spencer has shared a photograph from the family archive showing Queen Mary of Teck surrounded by the Spencers during her visit to their ancestral seat, Althorp House. The picture shows the grandfather and grandmother of Charles and Diana, their aunt, and their father with a
Faith · Observations · Society · Rome
Pope Francis on the eve of the Synod of Bishops, in which not only bishops and ordinary clergy but also laypeople will take part, among them, for the first time in history, 54 women
Among other things, the World Synod is to discuss the ordination of women to the priesthood and the blessing of homosexuals, and, along with it, to touch upon same-sex marriage as well. But it seems that nobody expects anything good any longer from Pope Francis with his incredible opportunism,
Coming Up · Books · Observations
Pelevin's Third Transhumanist Novel and the Secret of the Eleusinian Mysteries
Viktor Pelevin's twentieth novel, "Journey to Eleusis", about a corporate simulation of Ancient Rome, has at last reached all bookshops, Bookmate and the Yandex Plus subscription, and for the first time all at once. The Eleusinian Mysteries, which for many centuries were a kind of centre