In the courtyard of the Institute of History and Archives on Nikolskaya Street (remember that Gothic blue façade with the unicorn, the lion and the spires?) there is a small building in the Russian style, a terem

In the courtyard of the Institute of History and Archives on Nikolskaya Street (remember that Gothic blue façade with the unicorn, the lion and the spires?) there is a small building in the Russian style, a terem. In the days of the Print Yard, the terem housed the proofreading workshop (the pravilnya). The pravilnya was built on ancient foundations and vaults dating from the time of Ivan the Terrible, which makes this complex one of the oldest structures in Moscow. The interiors of the terem look like this today. The restorers have done a splendid job

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At the close of the Strugatskys' "Roadside Picnic" the Golden Sphere is asked for this: "Happiness for everybody, free, and let nobody go away unsatisfied!" I do not promise to leave no one aggrieved, but the digest really does come free

At the close of the Strugatskys' "Roadside Picnic" the Golden Sphere is asked for this: "Happiness for everybody, free, and let nobody go away unsatisfied!" I do not promise to leave no one aggrieved, but the digest really does come free. So, here is 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

In the courtyard of the Institute of History and Archives on Nikolskaya Street (remember that Gothic blue façade with the unicorn, the lion and the spires?) there is a small building in the Russian style, a terem

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At the close of the Strugatskys' "Roadside Picnic" the Golden Sphere is asked for this: "Happiness for everybody, free, and let nobody go away unsatisfied!" I do not promise to leave no one aggrieved, but the digest really does come free

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