Culture and art

“Thank you, gentlemen. I am very glad that we met, because the fate of Vertinsky, like no other fate, reminds us of the impossibility and tragic unnecessaryn...

“The lecture is dedicated to the work of the Russian classic Mikhail Evgrafovich Saltykov-Shchedrin, who suffered most from the fact that in Russia there was...

“I have never approached the subject of presentation with such timidity, since the topic sounds very blasphemous. The fear of any researcher precisely before...

“We, modest school teachers, have a much more decent and familiar classroom audience for talking about Russian classics, and in general, to be honest with yo...

“Ilf and Petrov have recently left active reading, as it seems to me, for two reasons. The first is that the older generation knows them by heart, and we are...

“Hello, dear friends! I admit, I take on this topic with some joy, because usually, when you start talking about someone beloved by everyone, you immediately...

I would really like that, after reading this doll encyclopedia, readers would think and, perhaps, even unravel the eternal mystery of the doll. Who knows, ma...

In modern urbanism, the wide open space of a large area is perceived as something irretrievably outdated. No designer, be it a New Urbanist (an 18th-century ...

Exploring the outskirts of South America's largest city, Sao Paulo, Justin McGuirk analyzes the different forms of housing there and talks to its residents, ...

In the recent Soviet past, domestic historians had one Customer in the person of the state. The state paid historians and rightly demanded from them results ...

Written during Olsen's five-month stay at the American Academy in Berlin, There. is part critifictional meditation and part trash diary exploring what hap...

The collection includes fragments of popular classical works in an easy arrangement for piano. In a number of cases, the compositions are transposed into con...