June's days are running out, so here is a round-up of this month's publications. The June digest takes in literary parallels, architecture, vampires, henpecked husbands and the artefacts of the Louvre

📌 In the Parnassian Mockingbird cinema rubric: a piece on the first vampire serial

📌 The most sensational case of museum forgery is linked with the name of a jeweller from Odessa

📌 The religious picture of the world, 2010–2020: statistics from Pew Research

📌 What do henpecked husbands have to do with birds of prey?

📌 The rules of society receptions

📌 How the Roman-Ostrogothic style has influenced contemporary Moscow architecture

📌 A European view of the court etiquette of the Sovereign of Muscovy and All Russia

📌 On one of the principal and unjustly neglected exhibits of the Louvre

📌 Radio Herod: how the Vatican irradiates Italy

📌 On intertextuality: Turgenev, Beecher Stowe and two drowned dogs

📌 How the Russian army took European capitals: a list of victories of the 18th and 19th centuries

📌 The 10 key films of the 21st century according to The New York Times

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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

June's days are running out, so here is a round-up of this month's publications. The June digest takes in literary parallels, architecture, vampires, henpecked husbands and the artefacts of the Louvre

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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