Culture and art

Classical art, approaching a completely new historical era, does not find its Genius, and gradually ceases to be a modern way of understanding current events...

In 2012 ago, at the Ayu-Dag Constellation festival, we gave a report “How to write combat.” We rummaged through the archives and looked: there was a plan out...

“...It is difficult to suspect Herzen of dislike for Europe. After all, this is precisely one of those Russian people who, in the words of Dostoevsky, “have ...

“The free, fiery muse, the inspiration of Pushkin, drives the dictators of our Parnassus and the sedentary critics of our literature into despair. Poor! As s...

“The upcoming season of art exhibitions promises to be rich and varied. Almost all of our famous artists create new paintings, most of which will appear eith...

“Something strange is currently happening in the premises of the Society for the Encouragement of Artists. In the already cramped premises of the museum and ...

“We do not at all take upon ourselves the important task of giving an account of this new great work of Gogol, who has already become highly respected by pre...

“While some two poems, placed in the first two books of “Notes of the Fatherland” in 1839, aroused so much interest in Lermontov from the public, established...

“Great was Pushkin’s feat that he was the first in his novel to poetically reproduce Russian society of that time and, in the person of Onegin and Lensky, sh...

Preface to the collection “Gunpowder in Powder Flasks.”

“...The five stories of Mr. Veltman that lie before us just as accurately justify our opinion about the talent of this author, like all his other works. In a...