Museums · Observations · Saint Petersburg · Ethnography · Humour
Our museum is about the culture and way of life of the peoples of the world, and therefore it does not display the freaks, dwarfs, giants and other monsters who amused the grandees of the eighteenth century This notice hung on the doors of the Peter the Great Museum of
In the Press · Art · Moscow · Museums · Saint Petersburg
The top ten most visited museums in the country looks like this: 1. Peterhof 2. Tsarskoye Selo 3. Saint Isaac's Cathedral 4. Russian Museum 5. Hermitage 6. Tretyakov Gallery 7. Tsaritsyno 8. Museum of the History of Saint Petersburg 9. Museum of the World Ocean (Kaliningrad) 10. Island-
Archive · Books · Moscow · Saint Petersburg
Stocktaking at the Bookshop of the A. Suvorin Partnership on Nevsky Prospect in Saint Petersburg in the early 1900s. Photograph by Karl Bulla. In Moscow, Suvorin's shop stood on Nikolskaya Street and later on Neglinnaya Street. Suvorin took up publishing in 1872 with the issue of a universal
Moscow · Observations · Society · Saint Petersburg
The titles of the highest officials in the constituent entities of the Russian Federation are governed by regional legislation. Both Moscow and Saint Petersburg are constituent entities of the Russian Federation, and each decides for itself what its chief executive shall be called. So does Sevastopol, where the head of
NB! · Art · Museums · Society · Saint Petersburg
Subsidies for Saint Petersburg museums to buy works of art are to resume this year. In 2025 around 100 million roubles will be allocated for the purpose, the Governor of Saint Petersburg, Alexander Beglov, has announced
Books · Monarchies · Mores · People · Saint Petersburg
Within ten days of her accession to the throne, Catherine II had invited Denis Diderot to come to Russia. She even proposed that he move the publication of the "Encyclopédie", which kept running into bans in France, to Riga or Saint Petersburg. But Diderot did not take up
Books · Monarchies · People · Saint Petersburg
The French historian Adrien Richer, in his History of … the Russians, published in 1770, suggests that Peter “felt that the priests and adherents of the old faith would not fail to regard this unhappy accident as a just punishment for the death of Tsarevich Alexei.” Tsarevich Alexei Petrovich had died
Archive · Monarchies · Society · Saint Petersburg
"In view of information received that the Provisional Government has afforded Nicholas Romanov the opportunity to leave for England, it has been resolved to declare forthwith to the Provisional Government the inflexible will of the Executive Committee not to permit the departure of Nicholas Romanov for England and to
Faith · Art · Museums · Paris · Saint Petersburg
Saint Petersburg, Imperial Glass Factory, 1810s. Crystal, opal glass, diamond-cut faceting, painting, gilding. «On the day of Holy Easter, 29 March, a thanksgiving service to the Lord God was offered in Paris, on the Place Louis XV, by the Russian clergy, in the presence of the Emperor Alexander, the
Art · Museums · Saint Petersburg
The inscription on Lucas Cranach the Elder's "Venus and Cupid" in the Hermitage collection. Cranach's Venus, painted in 1509, is the first female nude in the history of German painting, Eve excepted.
Architecture · Monarchies · Heritage · Paris · Saint Petersburg
One of the most beautiful bridges in Paris, the Pont Alexandre III, was built to celebrate the strengthening of the diplomatic alliance between France and Russia. Incredibly costly, difficult to execute and superbly decorated, the Alexander Bridge remains to this day one of the principal sights of Paris. Construction ran
Museums · Observations · Society · Saint Petersburg
No one's private commercial interests should be placed on the opposite pan of the scales from good order in one of the world's foremost museums. For many years the Hermitage has set an example to numerous international institutions in how to keep and display the world&