Moscow · Observations · Heritage · Society · Nature
The remarkable Moscow scholar Maria Survillo has drawn attention to the destruction of trees on the grounds of the Donskoy Monastery. Dreadful, tragic, irreparable. How cynically and methodically the image of old Moscow and the evidence of its former beauty are being destroyed 😣 P.S. To the champions of the
Observations · Society
I simply do not understand when this war will finally end and Russia return to a plain, peaceful life. When shall we at last be able to rejoice in that very peaceful sky, that prosperity and well-being, for which millions of our compatriots died? Why is it that, of
Faith · Art · Observations · Society
It is hard to call today's conditions the greatest calamity in the history of a mankind that has seen real grief, poverty and hunger in its recent past. So the attacks on the outward manifestations of church tradition are rather an aesthetic dispute, of the kind that took
Faith · Observations · Heritage · Society
Is it right to connect the passage from the Gospel of Mark, in which Jesus speaks of the scribes in long robes and of the poor widow giving the temple her last mite, with the argument about the wealth of the Church against the backdrop of a world economic crisis?
Art · Observations · Society
Discussing a Fail Mark, 1950, Sergey Grigoryev, Stalin Prize. The canvas is criticised for the parallelism of its lines to the picture plane, the primitive arrangement of its figures and its simplified palette. The artist's merit lies rather in outlining the genre's range and shaping a
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Observations · Society · People
There is a certain irony of the information world in the lot of outstanding persons, to be mentioned in some inscrutable idle impulse by people who, on the whole, couldn't care less about them and never could, for the one and only time in all history, and then
Observations · Society
Most of my acquaintances keep going out to the same bars as before the new measures, only at a different hour: truly, people who used never to leave the house before one in the morning now dance on the same overcrowded dance floors, only from 6 to 8 p.m.
NB! · Moscow · Museums · Observations · Society
Photographs from the exhibition on the letter Ё at the Slovo pavilion, VDNKh. A very atmospheric and coherent picture. It is a pity that we shall soon be deprived of public cultural life altogether, though visiting museums is, of course, hundreds of times safer than going to shops and restaurants,
Cinema · Observations · Society
The plot of the 1947 film "New Home" is built around a disputed plot of land, Zarechnye Dubki, which a former partisan, chairwoman of the "Young Guard" collective farm, wants to sow, while an old partisan, chairman of the "Forward" collective farm, wants to
Faith · Books · Education · Society
The Russian Orthodox Church proposes adding sacred texts to the school literature curriculum. Moreover, in the view of the Church's representatives, the foundational texts of "traditional" religions should carry no age rating.
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