Monarchies · Saint Petersburg · Society Pages · Humour
Rebecca Bettarini, also known as Victoria Romanovna, the bride of our partially recognised claimant to the headship of the Russian Imperial House, George Mikhailovich Romanov, with her mother Carla Cacciatore Bettarini outside the Catherine Palace in Tsarskoye Selo. The wedding of Romanov and Romanovna will take place on 1 October
Archaeology · Cinema · Museums · Saint Petersburg · Ethnography
The funerary mask of the semi-legendary Empress Himiko in the film "Tomb Raider: Lara Croft" is a complete replica of a real woman's mask from the Oglakhty burial ground in Khakassia. The painted plaster mask, made by a woman of the Tashtyk archaeological culture, dates
NB! · Observations · Nature · Saint Petersburg
Saint Petersburg Live reports that the oldest oak in the botanical garden has fallen. The 160-year-old tree, with a crown 24 metres across and a height of 18 metres, which had witnessed the abolition of serfdom, could not survive climate change, or, quite as likely, a fungal disease.
Archive · Books · Museums · Science · People · Saint Petersburg
The archive amounts to as many as 300 boxes of documents, manuscripts and texts. To be precise, according to the management of the Literary Museum of the Institute of Russian Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences, it comprises: memorial objects; a collection of manuscripts and documents; audio, photo and
Art · Monarchies · Paris · Saint Petersburg
Porphyry and gilt-bronze ewers by Gouthière. Paul I acquired them in Paris in 1799 and placed them in his bedchamber in the Mikhailovsky Castle in Saint Petersburg. These vases stood in the Emperor's bedchamber on the night of his murder, between 23 and 24 March 1801. No,
NB! · Architecture · Heritage · Saint Petersburg
Before and after restoration. A favourite genre. A bas-relief on the façade of the apartment building at 19 Vosstaniya Street in Saint Petersburg
Architecture · Heritage · Society · Saint Petersburg
At a meeting of activists and conservationists held as part of the banner exhibition "Stained Glass of Saint Petersburg. Losses. Protection. Rescue" in Saint Petersburg, the burning question "How can a concerned citizen protect the architectural decoration of historic buildings?" was discussed, and a set of
In the Press · Cinema · Books · Pop Culture · Saint Petersburg
The recent, almost viral surge of interest in the occasionally hilarious and thoroughly un-Peter-Jacksonian television adaptation of The Lord of the Rings, as staged by Leningrad television in the 1990s, has raised a question of sorts: is it really so surprising that citizens of the USSR were acquainted
Cinema · Books · Observations · Pop Culture · Saint Petersburg
Since everyone is so delighted with the Soviet "Lord of the Rings" that Channel Five has put online, I suggest watching the Soviet "Hobbit" as well, with a more starry cast and a truly epic Gollum. Zinovy Gerdt is the narrator, Ivan Krasko is Gandalf, Mikhail
Aristocracy · Monarchies · Mores · Saint Petersburg
The wedding of Grand Duke George Mikhailovich and Rebecca Bettarini will take place on 1 October 2021 in Saint Petersburg. It will be the first grand-ducal marriage in Russia in more than a hundred years, since the wedding of Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna in 1917. That was the second
NB! · Observations · Saint Petersburg · Humour
On the one hand, the 250th anniversary of Leningrad sounds absurd, but how else is one to put it? Surely not the 250th anniversary of the city on the Neva, presumably
Art · People · Saint Petersburg
Isaac Israilevich Brodsky (1883-1939) was one of the foremost, most acclaimed and most fame-showered creators of paintings about the life of Lenin and of canvases on the history of the Party. To his brush belong such monumental works as “Lenin Addressing the Workers of the Putilov Factory Rally