Chairs like those of the Tuileries Garden in the film “Five Evenings” and in Soviet Moscow

In Nikita Mikhalkov's film "Five Evenings" there is a shot of one of Moscow's public gardens with exactly the same chairs that are the calling card of the Tuileries Garden in Paris; anyone who has been there even once has a photo in such a chair in their gallery. Yes, in Soviet years this kind of street furniture was an ordinary part of the
urban infrastructure, lost in our day, alas. But bringing such "Parisian" chairs back to the city would be an excellent step, in my view, a good idea for the city officials

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September digest: archaeological finds, exhibitions, museums, theatre and the Church

In the finale of the Strugatskys' Roadside Picnic, the Golden Ball is told: "Happiness for everybody, free, and let nobody go away unsatisfied!" I do not promise to offend nobody, but the digest really does come free of charge. So, here is the main business of the

Frederic Leighton

Frederic Leighton. “Daedalus and Icarus”, 1869 Daedalus warns his son not to climb too high: the heat of the sun may melt the wax, but Icarus is already gazing into the distance, and the lamentations of a foolish old man interest him not in the least

Chairs like those of the Tuileries Garden in the film “Five Evenings” and in Soviet Moscow

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September digest: archaeological finds, exhibitions, museums, theatre and the Church

Frederic Leighton

Attempts to resolve the problems of many years of uncontrolled mass migration

Characters from Gogol's "Petersburg Tales" on the pedestal of the monument to Nikolai Gogol on Nikitsky Boulevard, photograph of the 1960s