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Avito continues to delight with unique lots

Avito continues to delight with unique lots. This time, for a modest 89 million roubles (almost 40 million more than last year's price), this flea market of the whole universe has put up for sale a 240-square-metre, six-room flat with a terrace in the centre

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From 8 to 22 August, the ninth international festival "Opera for All" is being held in Saint Petersburg

From 8 to 22 August, the ninth international festival "Opera for All" is being held in Saint Petersburg. On 12 August, in the Kirov Central Park of Culture and Leisure on Yelagin Island, Alexander Dargomyzhsky's "Rusalka" will be presented in a production by Ilya

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Quite recently I wanted to write about the creation in the Leningrad Region of a "Park Agency", which will oversee the preservation of cultural monuments, their use, and the promotion of heritage sites

Quite recently I wanted to write about the creation in the Leningrad Region of a "Park Agency", which will oversee the preservation of cultural monuments, their use, and the promotion of heritage sites. Among the monuments coming under the agency's care are the Priory Park and

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This Is Very Touching and Deserves Respect: To the Museum of the Soviet Era in Saint Petersburg

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Incidentally, since 2 July one of Russia's first parks, the Arboretum Park of the Peter the Great Botanical Garden, has been open on a trial basis

Incidentally, since 2 July one of Russia's first parks, the Arboretum Park of the Peter the Great Botanical Garden, has been open on a trial basis. The oldest trees in the regular part of the park, laid out in the 1820s, are two hundred years old, but the

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At 19.30, join the online lecture by Ilya Doronchenkov, Professor at the European University at Saint Petersburg: "Diaghilev's Failure? The Wrong Road to the West"

At 19.30, join the online lecture by Ilya Doronchenkov, Professor at the European University at Saint Petersburg: “Diaghilev's Failure? The Wrong Road to the West”

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Today: a lecture on Dürer by Roman Grigoryev, Head of the Department of Western European Prints at the Hermitage

Today: a lecture on Dürer by Roman Grigoryev, Head of the Department of Western European Prints at the Hermitage. Do join in, if you like: https://likadlugach.timepad.ru/event/1339706/ He gave a splendid lecture on Bruegel earlier, which I ought to have shared as well. But that is

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The Soviet translator Natalya Leonidovna Trauberg on the Russian poet and translator Valentin Stenich, who made the first Russian translation of "Ulysses" and was shot in 1938:

"Nobody was particularly surprised about him [that he would be arrested], because in 1937 they were locking up people who, with all their soul.. and he was very much.. really.. if they were locking people up for anecdotes and stories, then that was all he ever did. In the

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I do not know which came first, the roast chicken or the boiled egg, but pastry in the shape of letters is the very same alphabet biscuit from your childhood breakfasts, only larger and richer

I do not know which came first, the roast chicken or the boiled egg, but pastry in the shape of letters is the very same alphabet biscuit from your childhood breakfasts, only larger and richer. In Germany today such baked goods are sometimes called Russisch Brot, supposedly because the Dresden

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On the history of the Warsaw Library in Russia, there are interesting documents left by one of the first employees of the Imperial Library, Mikhail Ivanovich Antonovsky

On the history of the Warsaw Library in Russia, there are interesting documents left by one of the first employees of the Imperial Library, Mikhail Ivanovich Antonovsky. A writer, historian and translator, M.I. served the state in posts ranging from the Admiralty and the fleet to diplomatic errands. In

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After Suvorov's capture of Warsaw in 1794, among the other trophies that fell to Russia was one of the richest libraries in Europe, known as the Warsaw Library and by the name of the Załuski Library, assembled in the eighteenth century by the eminent Poli

After Suvorov's capture of Warsaw in 1794, among the other trophies that fell to Russia was one of the richest libraries in Europe, known as the Warsaw Library and by the name of the Załuski Library, assembled in the eighteenth century by the eminent Polish patrons of learning,

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The beauty Elizaveta Borisovna Shakhovskaya

The beauty Elizaveta Borisovna Shakhovskaya. One of her portraits is held in the Louvre, and two more in the Hermitage: this one, by Jean-Laurent Mosnier, and a second, a miniature by Augustin Ritt.