Architecture · Moscow · Observations · Heritage

Snegirev House on Plyushchikha Hidden Under a Canopy

Snegirev House on Plyushchikha has been hidden under a canopy. In the neglected residence of Professor Vladimir Fyodorovich Snegirev, the founder of Russian gynaecology, repair work has been under way for several years now, though I am not sure it can be called restoration. Built in the Romantic style in

Observations · Mores · People · Humour

Betty Ford, wife of the 38th President of the United States, Gerald Ford, dances on a table in the White House in 1977

I meant to be indignant and to write that it is unthinkable for a figure of such rank to dance on tables, but then I recalled the photograph of Galina Brezhneva dancing on a table, not in the White House, admittedly, but in her own flat, at a private gathering

Art · Cinema · Observations · Pop Culture

Ulyana Sergeyenko Continues to Delight with Her Devotion Not Only to the Hollywood Films of the Golden Age but to Refined Masterpieces of World Art

Ulyana Sergeyenko continues to delight with her devotion not only to the Hollywood films of the golden age but to refined masterpieces of world art. This time, the sketches for a couture collection inspired by old circus acts, cabaret divas and the dance shows of the early twentieth century reveal

Architecture · Art · Museums · Observations · Heritage · Paris

About 2,000 works from the museum will go to French and foreign museums

Today one of the finest museums of modern art, the Centre Pompidou, closes for five years of renovation. Around 2,000 works of art will be dispatched to other French and foreign museums. Part of the museum's collection can be seen quite soon, for instance, at the Grand

Statuette of a nude woman with reddish hair seated in an open shell, in a museum display case.

NB! · Observations · Society

Greetings to women on 8 March with wishes of love, well-being and a spring mood

Sweet girls, lovely women, wonderful ladies! Congratulations on 8 March! I wish you love, prosperity and a springtime mood, and may you never forget your divine significance! Everything most beautiful ever created in this world has been inspired by you!

Cinema · Observations

So a film that does well at the box office automatically counts as commercial?

In my view, the director Konchalovsky Jr. is quite mistaken in this instance

Observations · Pop Culture · Humour

In Jacques Offenbach's operetta "Orpheus in the Underworld", Pluto arrives on Olympus with a stick of sausage and on skis, and the Olympian gods, tired of ambrosia, are ready to stage a revolution

In Jacques Offenbach's operetta "Orpheus in the Underworld", Pluto arrives on Olympus with a stick of sausage and on skis, and the Olympian gods, tired of ambrosia, are ready to stage a revolution. Jupiter, meanwhile, turns into a fly, seduces Eurydice and gives himself up to

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A reminder not to stay up too late on the internet ✅

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My Favourite Sitcom

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Hansken and other known elephants in Europe, and doubts over six elephants in Mantua

A festive float drawn by three pairs of elephants at Mantua, during the celebrations in honour of the Blessed Virgin Mary in 1640. Most probably we are looking at a diverting fantasy, for elephants in the Europe of that age could be counted on the fingers of one hand. To

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Tarkovsky to the Rescue, Lads!

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Mistook a photograph of the 1989 Pink Floyd concert in Venice for the invasion of Earth by the forces of Baron Harkonnen

Mistook a photograph of the 1989 Pink Floyd concert in Venice for the invasion of Earth by the forces of Baron Harkonnen. Thank God, we got off lightly this time