Museums · Heritage · Society
Meanwhile, in the United States, 12,000 museums face closure. The American Alliance of Museums (AAM) believes that one museum in three across the States may shut its doors by the end of 2020, owing to the colossal crisis that has befallen Americans this year.
Architecture · Observations · Society
I know Varlamov wrote about this. Still, it is a handsome idea, if a rather ambiguous one. The administration of Rybinsk, in the Yaroslavl Region, has ordered that signboards in the historic part of the town be made in a "historical" style, and plastic is apparently banned as
Observations · Society · Paris · Humour
Paris, oh, Paris! Faugh, what a backwater! My eyes are simply popping out of my head at the "improvements" in the La Chapelle quarter. What is that supposed to be called? Inclusivity with solar panels and flowers? In principle, it is hard to say who has done Europe
Architecture · Heritage · Society
Buzuluk wooden Art Nouveau: yes, such a thing exists. The people of Tom Sawyer Fest in the town of Buzuluk are preserving unique monuments of the wooden architecture of their region, and they need our help. Read the post (https://www.instagram.com/p/CDi6i7FjI-J/?igshid=150ddi3chlg2z); perhaps you
Architecture · Observations · Heritage · Society · Saint Petersburg
Quite recently I wanted to write about the creation in the Leningrad Region of a "Park Agency", which will oversee the preservation of cultural monuments, their use, and the promotion of heritage sites. Among the monuments coming under the agency's care are the Priory Park and
Coming Up · Architecture · Observations · Heritage · Society
How heartening that Russia has people like the team and volunteers of Tom Sawyer Fest. If you have not yet heard of this organisation, you will like it: people united by a love of the historical and cultural heritage of their native parts simply rescue decrepit, abandoned and ruined monuments.
Cinema · Books · Observations · Society
I have long wanted to draw attention to Claude Chabrol's film "La Cérémonie", which we watched with the lads at my film club; the article mentions it too. The point is that this social drama, which in its day won a great many awards, is now
Archive · Observations · Society · Humour
Some time ago a letter from 1933, found in an old book, was published on "The Golden Age". In it a certain woman describes the grim state of affairs in Vitebsk and asks the relative to whom the letter is addressed to send her a dozen silver teaspoons.
Society
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Moscow · Observations · Society · Nature
Some time ago I fought, without success, the wretched municipal services over the mixed-herb lawn beneath my windows, home to birds and insects, but in the end it was mown, dug up, stripped of its fertile topsoil and covered with that belch of anthropogenic bad taste: turf in rolls.
Interviews · Observations · Society · People
In 2011 the distinguished French historian Pierre Nora gave an interview to the Russian scholar of identity, Doctor of Historical Sciences Elena Filippova, and touched upon a subject of some interest in present circumstances: the French constitutional reform of 2008. I give an abridged extract: “A good example, which I
The East · Observations · Society
Uzbekistan offers foreign tourists $3,000 if they catch coronavirus during their stay in the sunny republic. Tourism occupies an important place in the country's economy, and the lockdown has had a serious effect not only on the well-being of enterprises in the sector but on a