Airliner cabin in the Soviet film “Old Khottabych” (1956) and ideas of comfort then and now

Once again, let us compare notions of comfort then and now. Consider the cabin of the aeroplane in the Soviet fantasy film "Old Khottabych" of 1956: the drapery, the double rows, the capacious armchairs with changeable covers, so that one need not fret that the previous occupant of the seat was a decrepit fakir from a dust-covered, three-thousand-year-old bottle. And then recall business class, or even the private jet from the stories of a wealthy friend: in Soviet times it was, all things considered, better

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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

Airliner cabin in the Soviet film “Old Khottabych” (1956) and ideas of comfort then and now

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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