Miroslav Valek, illustration to The Blizzard Usually I can see the Moscow State University’s main building from my window – but now it is barely seen through the most beautiful blizzard. T...
Caravaggio, The Entombment The exhibition of the famous Italian Baroque painter, Michelangelo di Caravaggio, opens at the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow on November 26, 2011. The works on displ...
Critics consider Ilya Glazunov's illustrations to An Unknown Lady by Alexander Blok to be the overall finest illustrations of Blok's work....
I visited the Bolshoi Theatre only once, in early 1999. Together with my uni friend we listened to the Stone Guest (Don Juan) opera. We sat literally under the roof, and I got to see the beautiful mur...
St. Trinity Church I try to take regular walks in Vorobyovy Gory, one of my all-time favourite places in Moscow. In fact, I would love to live close enough to be able to go there every other day. This...
I‘m taking part in a photography project by Kirill Kuzmin, Bloggers’ Portraits. This Internet moves in mysterious ways, and I cannot even remember now how I came across Kirill’s blog...
What I definitely liked about this year’s Moscow Design Week is its higher class. Last year’s MDW was a first attempt, clearly done with a bit of scepticism towards its own necessity. The ...
Christ the Saviour Cathedral Christ the Saviour Cathedral I am reading Cursed Days by Ivan Bunin, the Russian 1933 Nobel Laureate in Literature. In the 1917-18 Diary that precedes the narrative...
Although the father-founder of the Moscow Design Week, Alexander Fedotov, has said that the event organisers tried not to restrict “design” to Architecture and Interior Design only, but al...
Ingo Maurer’s project for the 2nd Moscow Design Week (11-16 October 2011) explores the notions of light and fire as applied to the living space. Called ‘the Poet of Light’ by Gilda B...