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Joseph Brodsky in Leningrad on the day of his departure from the USSR, 4 June 1972

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Dogs in Pavlov's laboratories and the 1935 monument to a nameless dog

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

Black-and-white photograph of a hall with a sculpted frieze, a chandelier, a double door topped by sphinxes and a long table with chairs.

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Interior of the Ceremonial Hall of the Academy of Arts Library in Saint Petersburg, 1900s

The ceremonial hall of the Academy of Arts library. Saint Petersburg, 1900s

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Oranienbaum escaped occupation and its palaces survived, unlike Peterhof and Gatchina

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

A rusty metal pile with a Corinthian capital above dark water, with pale apartment buildings on the far shore under a blue sky.

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Boremir Bakharev created a mooring pile with a Corinthian capital for the “Waterfront/Водная линия” 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

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Alexander Kuprin at a Feast in a Pushkin House Negative and His Taste for Food

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

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Alexander III ten years behind a grille in Ivan Fomin's design, then in the Russian Museum basement

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

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Monthly digest for July on discoveries, restoration, art and science

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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The Hermitage shows Titian’s “Saint Sebastian” after three years of restoration

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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Elizaveta Zvantseva's art school exhibition at the Museum of Russian Impressionism to 4 October

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