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In a photograph of the 1910s taken in Saint Petersburg by the master of reportage Iosif Otsup, Alexandr Kuprin sits second from the left at a laid table

The archivists of Pushkin House have provisionally titled this negative a novelist's feast in the company of friends. The identities of the other participants cannot be established with certainty, given the writer's vast circle of acquaintance: he fell in with celebrated poets, hacks from the boulevard

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It turns out that for the tenth anniversary of the October Revolution, in 1927, the monument to Alexander III on Uprising Square was put in a cage

The project was devised by the architect Ivan Fomin, author of the concept of proletarian classicism, known for the NKVD building on Lubyanka and the interiors of the Moscow Metro stations Krasnye Vorota and Teatralnaya. Alexander III sat behind these bars for ten years, until he was transferred to the

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Fet begged to “drive the living boat off with a single push”, to catch the fleeting before it vanishes

Fet begged to “drive the living boat off with a single push”, to catch the fleeting before it vanishes. The monthly digest has a more modest task, though the same one: to hold on to what matters before the flood of news washes it away. Here is the main news

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The "Cuckoo" local train, which ran from 1864 between Peterhof and Oranienbaum

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An Exhibition of a Single Painting Opens at the Hermitage: "Titian. The Last Masterpiece: Saint Sebastian"

An exhibition of a single painting, "Titian. The Last Masterpiece: Saint Sebastian", has opened at the Hermitage. The end of the canvas's three-year restoration coincides with the 450th anniversary of Titian's death. The picture was painted in the technique of pittura a macchia,

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The Hermitage has opened the exhibition "A Feat of Enlightened Philanthropy" for the 150th anniversary of the Central School of Technical Drawing, founded by Baron Alexander Ludwigovich Stieglitz (1814-1884), the greatest Russian banker of his age, who fi

The Hermitage has opened the exhibition "A Feat of Enlightened Philanthropy" for the 150th anniversary of the Central School of Technical Drawing, founded by Baron Alexander Ludwigovich Stieglitz (1814-1884), the greatest Russian banker of his age, who financed the state loans for the Crimean War and the

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In the House at 35 Tavricheskaya, One Floor Below Vyacheslav Ivanov's "Tower", Where All Symbolist Petersburg Gathered on Wednesdays, a Drawing School Operated from 1906

In the house at 35 Tavricheskaya, one floor below Vyacheslav Ivanov's "Tower", where all Symbolist Petersburg gathered on Wednesdays, a drawing school operated from 1906. The school was founded by Elizaveta Zvantseva, a pupil of Repin and Serov. By the turn of the century the Academy

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The Garage Museum opens a new season of open storage with "Art on the Frequency of the 1980s", running until 23 September

I did not attend the guided tour, only chatted with friends, but that will not stop me from dissecting the curatorial conception. First, given that we are dealing not with an exhibition but with a format for the temporary display of part of the museum's collection within its

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Restoration of the grand antechamber completed at Saint Petersburg's House of Radio

At Saint Petersburg's House of Radio, the restoration of the grand antechamber has been completed. The method chosen here is rather unusual: not a return to a single era, but a combination of different historical layers: pre-revolutionary, Soviet, perestroika-era and contemporary. Coffered ceilings, Pompeian-style murals,

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Emir Kusturica Spotted at SPIEF

Emir Kusturica has been spotted at SPIEF. As the saying goes, if nobody catches cold, then everything will most certainly come to pass.

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At the centre of the photograph, in Russian costume, sits the 82-year-old Vladimir Stasov, host of the evening

At the centre of the photograph, in Russian costume, sits the 82-year-old Vladimir Stasov, host of the evening. Behind him, to his right, is Fyodor Chaliapin; at the piano, Felix Blumenfeld; on other evenings, Cesar Cui and Rachmaninoff would occupy that place. The eye is caught by Stasov&

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Galina Starovoitova would have turned 80 today, but she was murdered in 1998