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The Catherine Palace during restoration in 1976
The Catherine Palace suffered severely during the German occupation of Pushkin. The Germans first plundered Rastrelli's Baroque masterpiece, then turned it into barracks and garages, and, retreating in January 1944, mined it and set it on fire. It was from its charred and mutilated walls that the Amber
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The Anichkov Bridge in the 1870s
Art · Moscow · Museums · Observations · Saint Petersburg
The Marble Palace Is Cramped
The Marble Palace is cramped. One understands this on seeing the collection, so familiar from its walls, in the halls of the Zilart museum. Stepping into the space of the new exhibition of the gift of Peter and Irene Ludwig, shown here in its entirety for the first time, I
Coming Up · Books · Saint Petersburg
From 4 to 6 September the Italian Garden will host "Book Garden", a festival marking the centenary of Podpisnye Izdaniya
The programme includes meetings with writers and researchers, lectures, concerts, a publishers' market, book-dating and a separate programme for children. Among the participants are Zhang Yueran, Marcello Simonetta, Angela Nanetti (online), Yevgeny Tsyganov and the band ME4TA, TERELYA, ARTEMIEV, Vladimir Lisovsky, Lev Lurie, Alyona Doletskaya, Vika Chuma, Marina
NB! · Archive · Art · Saint Petersburg
A Scene from a Play on a Theme from Russian History
A scene from a play on a theme from Russian history. The photograph was taken by Karl Bulla in Saint Petersburg in the 1910s
Listings · Moscow · Coming Up · Books · Society · Saint Petersburg
Moscow – Leningrad: Something Different
The Seventies are arranged in a rather unusual way in Soviet culture. The Thaw was over, the euphoria had evaporated, and it became clear to certain people that print runs in the millions and vast auditoriums no longer loomed on the horizon, while large exhibitions would be of whatever format
NB! · Archive · People · Saint Petersburg
Joseph Brodsky in Leningrad on the day of his departure from the USSR, 4 June 1972
Archive · Science · People · Nature · Saint Petersburg
The physiologist Ivan Pavlov with his colleagues and students of the Military Medical Academy before a demonstration of experiments on the transmission of conditioned reflexes
Professor Georgy Konradi recalled that Ivan Petrovich had quite literally grown into one with the dog as an object of study, and that when demonstrating a frog to an audience he regularly slipped and called it a dog. But the atmosphere of the laboratories was described in most detail by
NB! · Archive · Architecture · Books · Education · Saint Petersburg
The Ceremonial Hall of the Academy of Arts Library
The ceremonial hall of the Academy of Arts library. Saint Petersburg, 1900s
Archive · Architecture · Heritage · Saint Petersburg
The Hall of the Muses in the Chinese Palace at Oranienbaum in 1947
The Hall of the Muses in the Chinese Palace at Oranienbaum in 1947. Oranienbaum was the only one of the suburban residences of Saint Petersburg that did not fall under occupation during the Great Patriotic War. The Germans were stopped on the approaches to the town in September 1941, and
NB! · Architecture · Art · Saint Petersburg
Art object "Mooring Post with a Metal Capital of the Corinthian Order", made from an old metal pipe with the addition of a Corinthian capital by the artist Boremir Bakharev in 2021 for the "Waterfront/Vodnaya liniya" competition
Art object "Mooring Post with a Metal Capital of the Corinthian Order", made from an old metal pipe with the addition of a Corinthian capital by the artist Boremir Bakharev in 2021 for the "Waterfront/Vodnaya liniya" competition. Saint Petersburg, waters of the River Smolenka