Observations · Pop Culture · Saint Petersburg · Humour
It is pleasing to see that colossi such as the BDT keep pace with the times and readily integrate new formats into their daily work. Take, for example, a company meeting with Alisa Freindlich and Nina Usatova. Everyone is ever so sweet, keeps up a fighting spirit and is not
Science · Education · People · Saint Petersburg
In 1736 the Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences sent twelve talented young men to Europe, where they were to study languages, the technical and natural sciences, get to know European life and all that sort of thing. Among these gifted students was the 25-year-old Mikhail Lomonosov, who studied
Museums · Society · Saint Petersburg
upd some sources in federal cultural institutions deny the reports that they are closing at all, or closing to visitors; staff have been offered a shortened working day, masks and new safety measures, and have preferred to limit attendance. The Hermitage really is due to close from today. evidently, not
Museums · Observations · Society · Saint Petersburg
- A crisis management plan has been drawn up, which includes possible options for the museum's operation should the situation deteriorate. - The Hermitage does not plan to hold any mass cultural events with more than 1,000 participants in the near future. - Attendance at the museum complex is regulated
Archive · Observations · Society · Saint Petersburg
Revolutionary intelligentsia and class-conscious proletarians, who would most probably have armed themselves, could not but shun the Zubatov movement, could not but keep away from it. The government thus had an especially free hand and was playing a game it could not lose: THE MOST PEACEFUL, THE LEAST ORGANISED,
Books · Monarchies · Observations · Mores · Saint Petersburg
When the heir of Alexander II, Nicholas, suddenly died of an unknown illness, his bride, the Danish Princess Dagmar, passed, as it were, to the second son, became his betrothed and, accordingly, came to Saint Petersburg. This was September 1866. The weather was splendid. And so Tyutchev, in honour of
Archive · Observations · Saint Petersburg
As I am not a professional collector but a simple lover of valuables, I too failed to realise unaided that I had become the owner of a specimen of such secret production from the era of the NEP. Apart from slight traces of the shaving off of surplus gold, nothing
Archive · Society · Saint Petersburg
So, to return to the symbolic discs and coins. There was one curious episode: in 1925 Soviet Russia began to strike gold 10- and 5-rouble coins of Tsarist Russia. For a long time this information was regarded as no more than unconfirmed rumour, until some ten years ago official
Art · London · Moscow · Observations · Saint Petersburg
A whole cartload of letters about the Moon in various public places arrived over the weekend. Here, for instance, is a colossal Moon at the celebration of the 90th anniversary of Gorky Park in Moscow. In Milan it was a public swimming pool. The seven-metre sphere also shone in
NB! · Observations · Saint Petersburg · Humour
But shocking models of the Moon can be found not only in Rochester Cathedral. Here a subscriber has sent a photograph of the Moon taken some years ago on the Obvodny Canal, when the new Planetarium was being opened in Saint Petersburg and the luminary was floated down the river.
Museums · Observations · Society · Saint Petersburg
From today the Hermitage raises the price of its combined ticket, for the time being only for foreigners: it will now cost 800 roubles. I do not know how you feel about it, but I, having held a foreign passport for many years, am somewhat vexed. To put it mildly,
Archive · Faith · Mores · Saint Petersburg · Humour
A story comes to mind, told on the word of a participant in the events, which took place in the capital in early 1888. It concerns Isidore, Metropolitan of Novgorod, Saint Petersburg and Finland, who had conducted the funeral service for Alexander II and crowned Alexander III, and who was