Declaration I have just discovered one of the most beautiful queries that landed someone on Los Cuadernos: “one man’s graffitti is another man’s picasso phrases” While you pond...
I rediscovered this photo on my return to Moscow. It was taken at the State Historical Museum in 1999, where I and other students from our department of Medieval and Early Modern History went f...
Alexander Ivanov, The Bay of Naples near Castellmare (1846) Alexander Ivanov, On the Shore of the Bay of Naples (1850s) The Bay of Naples has traditionally been a favourite with painters. Peter...
Sheffield 7 – Andrew Motion “What If…?”, originally uploaded by loscuadernosdejulia. Via Flickr: What If..? by Andrew Motion O travellers from somewhere else to here Rising fro...
York – Velazquez – Venus at Her Mirror, originally uploaded by loscuadernosdejulia. One of world’s best-known painting, Diego Velazquez’s Venus at her mirror (1644-48), hangs a...
«Спас на Крови» на Яндекс.Фотках This photo is currently The Photo of the Day on Yandex’s analog to Google’s Picasa/Panoramio. I really hope to visit St Petersburg during the White Nights ...
Alexander Ivanov, the contemporary of Nikolai Gogol and Karl Brullov, spent a large part of his life in Italy where he also did many sketches for his masterpiece, The Appearance of Christ to the Peopl...
Article first published as The Russian Manchester: How Ivanovo Is Finding Its Way in Post-Soviet Russia on Blogcritics. People of Manchester, rejoice! No longer is Venice the only enviable comparison ...
Yes, I spent two days in Ivanovo, formerly known as Ivanovo-Voznesensk, the so-called Russian Manchester. The town, too, used to be famous for its calico production; nowadays, sadly, some of the facto...
Moscow State University Lomonosov Moscow State University This week I had two lengthy walks around Moscow, one starting in the vicinity of the so-called Three Railway Stations Square and going to the ...