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Mathilde Kschessinska: My intimate relations with the old government came easily to me: it consisted of just one man. But what am I to do now, when the new government, the Soviet of Workers' and Soldiers' Deputies, consists of 2,000 people? Caricature by Nikolai Remizov (Re-Mi)
Aristocracy · Moscow · Museums · Mores · Saint Petersburg
The samovar belonged to Alexey Nikolayevich Olenin, President of the Academy of Arts and Director of the Imperial Public Library, whose salon was among the most brilliant in Saint Petersburg. Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin entered Olenin's salon straight from the Lyceum; here he made the acquaintance of Gnedich and
Architecture · Society · Saint Petersburg · Humour
Just in time! A triumphal column is to be erected in Saint Petersburg in memory of Russia's victory in the Great Northern War of 1700-21. The idea of a triumphal column is more than three hundred years old: the first design was drawn up under Peter himself,
Archaeology · Art · Museums · Saint Petersburg
Collection of the State Hermitage Museum
Art · Museums · Heritage · Society · Saint Petersburg
Finnish customs officers detained vehicles carrying works of art from Russian museums in April 2022. More than 200 exhibits were placed under arrest, among them items from the collections of the State Hermitage, the Tretyakov Gallery, and the museum-reserves "Gatchina", "Pavlovsk" and "Tsarskoye Selo&
Coming Up · The East · Art · Moscow · Museums · Saint Petersburg
The Tretyakov Gallery will open the year with a retrospective of the artist Francisco Infante, "The Formula of Infinity". In spring the New Tretyakov will host the exhibition "The Road to the East", a project about the Russian artists who worked in Central Asia in the
Coming Up · Art · Museums · Saint Petersburg
The Academy of Arts Museum in Saint Petersburg has opened the exhibition "Repin. Details." The project marks the 180th anniversary of the birth of Ilya Repin and is devoted to the world of objects in the paintings of the great Russian artist, to his approach to work, and
Archive · The East · Art · Saint Petersburg
The illustration is found in the 11th scroll of the Japanese manuscript "Kankai ibun", or "Strange Tidings of the Seas Surrounding [the Earth]", compiled from the interrogations of sailors who were returned to Japan together with the Russian embassy in 1805. At the end of 1793
Faith · Art · Monarchies · People · Saint Petersburg
Clad in a golden silk gown and an ermine mantle, the picture shows Grand Duchess Alexandra (1825-1844), the youngest daughter of Emperor Nicholas I, a beauty and the darling of all. Alexandra Nikolayevna appears before us in an attitude of prayer, her face turned towards the divine light. This
Coming Up · Art · Monarchies · Museums · Saint Petersburg
The display includes paintings, jewellery, porcelain, smalt and mosaic panels, and furniture. Particular attention is paid to Mikhail Lomonosov: one of the halls will be devoted to his work and to the unique collection of smalt and mosaic panels produced at the Ust-Ruditsa factory, which Lomonosov founded. Among the
Art · Museums · Saint Petersburg
The Hermitage has opened the exhibition "…Look into the Eyes of Monsters…": Mythical Personifications of Terror in Antiquity and Their Conquerors. Its heroes are the dreadful creatures of mythology, the monsters and chimeras that symbolised the fears surrounding the ancient Greeks and found vivid embodiment in the art
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Dostoevsky preferred intuitive punctuation and did not resort to the rules of orthography when placing punctuation marks. He read his manuscripts aloud and put commas wherever the intonation called for a pause. There is a curious recollection of Dostoevsky on this score by the writer and translator Varvara Timofeyeva, who