Coming Up · Archive · Art · Saint Petersburg
The Béton Centre for Visual Culture has announced a new project, "Masterpieces of Early Photography". The exhibition, which opens on 29 August, will present unique works by outstanding nineteenth-century photographers: David Hill and Robert Adamson, Édouard Baldus, Henri Le Secq, Gustave Le Gray and other masters whose
Architecture · Books · Saint Petersburg
Let more diverse tastes be joined together. Let the same street see rising side by side the gloomily Gothic, the Eastern laden with lavish ornament, the colossal Egyptian, and the Greek, imbued with harmonious proportion... Let houses as seldom as possible merge into one even, monotonous wall... Gogol on eclecticism,
Archaeology · Museums · Science · Saint Petersburg
British archaeologists from the University of Cambridge have used modern scanning methods to study the mummified remains of a woman of the Pazyryk culture, held in the Hermitage. The study, published in the journal Antiquity, revealed tattoos on the mummy's arms that had previously gone unnoticed. The right
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Coming Up · Art · Museums · Observations · Saint Petersburg
Fresh impressions of the new exhibition at the Horse Guards Manege in Saint Petersburg, "Photographic Art. From the Daguerreotype to Artificial Intelligence". The exhibition is very large: one can wander happily for several hours, for it occupies two floors of the Manege. It opens with the very first
Archive · Art · Monarchies · Saint Petersburg
The Imperial Family of the Russian Imperial House in Alexander Eikhov's photograph of 1867, showing Alexander II with his wife, children, brothers and nephews, is one of the first examples of photomontage in the history of photography. All the figures were photographed separately. Moreover, as Alexey Loginov, curator
Architecture · Museums · Heritage · Saint Petersburg
The State Hermitage is to undertake a large-scale restoration of its buildings in the coming years. According to the museum's director, Mikhail Piotrovsky, the work will affect the Hermitage Theatre and the Menshikov Palace and will continue for several years. The plans include the restoration of façades,
Art · Moscow · Museums · Saint Petersburg
The subject is a Russian peasant whom the invaders meant to conscript into Napoleon's army, and whose hand they branded with the letter N; whereupon, before the astonished eyes of the intruders, he hacked off his branded hand. The Roman Scaevola, that is to say the Left-Handed,
Coming Up · Architecture · Heritage · Education · Saint Petersburg
The main works are due to be finished by December, but some classes may resume as early as September. Particular attention has been paid to preserving the historic appearance of the building while equipping it with modern facilities. The acoustics of the Rubinstein Great Hall have been improved, and the
Faith · Observations · Society · Saint Petersburg
It is indeed odd that the event is called the "Petersburg International Economic Forum" rather than the "Saint Petersburg" one. Even in English it is St. Petersburg. "Saint", after all, is not even a prefix but part of the name, pointing to the city&
Architecture · Museums · Science · Paris · Saint Petersburg
And if the pendulum that Jean Foucault hung beneath the dome of the Paris Panthéon on a 67-metre cable weighed 28 kilograms, the one installed in "Isakiy" was almost twice as heavy and, with a cable 98 metres long, was recognised as the largest in the world.
Archive · Faith · Observations · Saint Petersburg
This is how it ought to be in the largest Orthodox country in the world, and not twice a year on feast days