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Review of the film “Conclave” and its comparison with “The Young Pope” and “The Two Popes”
Who liked the film "Conclave", and why it has drawn so much attention, I do not know. All of this was already in "The Young Pope" and "The Two Popes", only more interesting and better. All I know is that I would not have
Art · Cinema · Observations · Society · Pop Culture
Winners of the youth category at the Russian Creative Awards announced
We recently looked together at the shortlist of the Russian Creative Awards, which for the first time in a long while included a category for young figures in culture, art and the creative industries (established jointly with the Tavrida art cluster). The awards ceremony took place on Friday, and we
NB! · Observations
Not the Worst Scenario, Incidentally
Art · Observations
A Very Intriguing Scene: a Cavalier with a Masked Lady Seated Behind Him
The seventeenth-century Dutch watercolourist Gesina ter Borch and an unknown sixteenth-century Italian artist.
Moscow · Museums · Observations · Humour
I kept wondering why the exhibition in the Green Foyer of the Moscow Art Theatre, devoted to six productions of "The Seagull" and at the same time to Chekhov's 165th anniversary, is called "From Konstantin to Konstantin"
I kept wondering why the exhibition in the Green Foyer of the Moscow Art Theatre, devoted to six productions of "The Seagull" and at the same time to Chekhov's 165th anniversary, is called "From Konstantin to Konstantin". It turns out that what is meant
Coming Up · Observations · Society
It cannot but please that with each passing year cultural initiatives receive ever more institutional support, and that membership of specialist communities is becoming prestigious among the young
It cannot but please that with each passing year cultural initiatives receive ever more institutional support, and that membership of specialist communities is becoming prestigious among the young. This year the annual Russian Creative Awards, to be held tomorrow, has added a special category for young figures in culture, the
Observations · Mores
The meaning of the word oshchip in a popular saying and its mistaken pronunciation
Remember the expression "to land like a hen in the plucking"? It is a mangled pronunciation of the winged phrase "to land like a hen in the ощип", where the ощип (oshchip) is the plucking of feathers from a chicken carcass.
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A Reminder Before Bedtime
Cinema · Books · Observations
Uda Benyamin directs a Dumas adaptation in which the musketeers are women
A new version of "The Three Musketeers" will appear in 2025, with women as the musketeers and d'Artagnan. The synopsis runs thus: when Sarah, a young girl on the run, discovers that the three musketeers protecting the Queen of France are in fact women, she decides
Architecture · Books · Observations · Pop Culture
The Mr. Moon mouth entrance to Luna Park Melbourne, built 110 years ago
The gates of Melbourne's Luna Park, built 110 years ago: Mr Moon's maw recalls at once every urban legend and horror story about children vanishing in amusement parks. Small wonder, when you are swallowed at the very entrance by so appalling a mouth. One naturally thinks,
Aristocracy · Observations · Humour
I do love the eighteenth-century Russian language for such charming feminine forms as “baronsha”
None of your refined baronesses, mind you, but a proper, solid, genuine baronsha