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Three stages of one cake: scroll through the photos from the latest to the earliest and you get, quite literally, the restoration chronology of the federally protected heritage site in whose shape the cake was made

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Three stages of one cake: scroll through the photos from the latest to the earliest and you get, quite literally, the restoration chronology of the federally protected heritage site in whose shape the cake was made

In the year of its centenary, the Library of Foreign Literature has at last opened the restored late eighteenth-century house at Nikoloyamskaya, 6. The whole official upper crust of culture turned out for the occasion: the minister, deputies, heads of federal agencies, directors of institutions. Even Vladimir Medinsky sent

By Alexandr Radayev
In Yury Trifonov's immortal novella “The Exchange” there were two design bureaux, No. 2 and No. 3: the Threes played five-minute blitz chess, the Twos played ping-pong

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In Yury Trifonov's immortal novella “The Exchange” there were two design bureaux, No. 2 and No. 3: the Threes played five-minute blitz chess, the Twos played ping-pong

In Yury Trifonov's immortal novella “The Exchange” there were two design bureaux, No. 2 and No. 3: the Threes played five-minute blitz chess, the Twos played ping-pong. Of course, a more obvious example of the passion for “small tennis” is the duels between the institute staff

By Alexandr Radayev
Today sees the long-awaited opening of the mysterious park in the former pioneer camp of Veretyevo near Dubna, designed by Alexander Brodsky himself, who conducted one of the first tours between the clumps of nettles and thickets of thistle

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Today sees the long-awaited opening of the mysterious park in the former pioneer camp of Veretyevo near Dubna, designed by Alexander Brodsky himself, who conducted one of the first tours between the clumps of nettles and thickets of thistle

Today sees the long-awaited opening of the mysterious park in the former pioneer camp of Veretyevo near Dubna, designed by Alexander Brodsky himself, who conducted one of the first tours between the clumps of nettles and thickets of thistle. The landscape park, laid out right on a bog, is

By Alexandr Radayev
At the Old Stock Greenhouse in the Botanical Garden of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the presentation of Roma Uvarov's new upcycled collection

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At the Old Stock Greenhouse in the Botanical Garden of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the presentation of Roma Uvarov's new upcycled collection

At the Old Stock Greenhouse in the Botanical Garden of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the presentation of Roma Uvarov's new upcycled collection. The building is phenomenal, dating from the late 1940s, the core of its plant collection came from the Potsdam greenhouse, received in 1947, and the

By Alexandr Radayev
Irina Kupchenko, Rimas Tuminas, Lyudmila Maksakova, Nina Nekhlopchenko and Kirill Krok at a memorial gathering in honour of the Vakhtangov Theatre's veterans of the front

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Irina Kupchenko, Rimas Tuminas, Lyudmila Maksakova, Nina Nekhlopchenko and Kirill Krok at a memorial gathering in honour of the Vakhtangov Theatre's veterans of the front

Irina Kupchenko, Rimas Tuminas, Lyudmila Maksakova, Nina Nekhlopchenko and Kirill Krok at a memorial gathering in honour of the Vakhtangov Theatre's veterans of the front. The Vakhtangov Theatre building was destroyed at the very beginning of the war, and dozens of the theatre's actors did not

By Alexandr Radayev
Yesterday MAMM opened an exhibition of photographs by Yulia Mayorova, but I did not manage to see it: I had time only to fortify myself with two glasses of champagne and snap the corridor, with the works glimpsed at its far end, since the opening was dela

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Yesterday MAMM opened an exhibition of photographs by Yulia Mayorova, but I did not manage to see it: I had time only to fortify myself with two glasses of champagne and snap the corridor, with the works glimpsed at its far end, since the opening was dela

Yesterday MAMM opened an exhibition of photographs by Yulia Mayorova, but I did not manage to see it: I had time only to fortify myself with two glasses of champagne and snap the corridor, with the works glimpsed at its far end, since the opening was delayed and I had

By Alexandr Radayev
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