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Pavel Filonov, man who is obsessed with drawing
“Old man obsessed with drawing”, short but capacious formula, which was used by Katsushika Hokusai for signing his works, has long been...

elizavetadomanova
Nov 24, 202023 min read


Motherhood in the USSR - a diagnosis or a joyful event?
Publishing houses of the USSR issued instructional-methodical, instructional-technical and educational posters on a variety of topics....

Nikita Kudinov
Nov 22, 20208 min read


Design at VKHUTEMAS - revolutionaries or futurists
The article is based on a video lecture by Artem Dezhurko "Design at VKHUTEMAS". The article presents the main facts and key quotes of...

Nikita Kudinov
Nov 15, 20207 min read


Panarchy of the Gordin brothers.
Panarchy is a structure in which systems, including systems of nature and man, as well as integrated systems of man and nature, are...
Ekimov Kirill
Jun 3, 20205 min read


N. K. Koltsov "The improvement of human breed"
More recently - only in the twentieth century - a complex new biological science, called "eugenics" - the science of human nobility,...
kuranovaad
May 31, 20205 min read


Theater on paper
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, several recording systems developed in the Russian theater. Some of them were based...

Екатерина Лебедева
May 27, 202011 min read


About Vladimir Kirshon's plays "The Rails are humming" and "Wonderful alloy"
About the play "The Rails are humming" (1927) Nemirovich-Danchenko in the "Working newspaper" of March 25, 1928, speaking about the...

Екатерина Лебедева
May 27, 20209 min read


Svyatogor about volcanism as a true art
From the Rooster of the revolution (1917) "Free of all my fellow citizens, I call for an independent and powerful Vulcania creativity. I...

Екатерина Лебедева
May 26, 20205 min read


Marshak, S. the Seven wonders. Drawings by M. Tsekhanovsky
L.-M., Raduga, 1926. 12 pages with illustrations. Circulation of 20,000 copies. In a color lithographed publishing cover. 21, 8x18, 7 cm....

Екатерина Лебедева
May 22, 20202 min read


Valentina Khodasevich about Tatlin as a person and artist
His first words-they are always unexpected, interest and attract attention,and ears will hang out. He understands this and "clicks", and...

Екатерина Лебедева
May 22, 20206 min read


About free love
Many Russian writers of the first half of the 20th century touched on the theme of free love in their works. Examples are Panteleimon...

Екатерина Лебедева
May 18, 20207 min read


"The conspiracy of feelings" on stage
Russian writer Yuri Olesha in 1927 wrote the novel "Envy" ( an interesting post about cars from this novel you can read here -...

Екатерина Лебедева
May 18, 20206 min read


Birth and death of Lef
Screenplay by Alexey Kruchenykh, written in 1928. Once a week, "Then" screens an episode for the web series "The Birth and death of Lef"....

Timur Dzhanibekov
May 18, 20206 min read


Soon (in 48 years)
In 1922, Kollontai published the story "Soon" - about the future of communism - and so that people do not open their mouths to the fact...

gridnevasonya
May 17, 20205 min read


Cities of the future through the eyes of Lazar Hidekel
At the age of 16, Lazar Hidekel became the head of The UNOVIS Architectural Studio. "Affirmers of new art" under the leadership of...

Timur Dzhanibekov
May 17, 20203 min read


Alexander Voronsky. The place of art in the new world. Synergy of art and a modern mode of life.
The main ideas from Alexander Voronsky's essays about the place of art in a new world, new aims of art and its interaction with the life.

Sophie Sviridova
May 17, 20206 min read


August Bebel-women's freedom fighter
In 1913, Alexandra Kollontai wrote an article "the Great fighter for women's rights and freedom", in memory of August Bebel, a figure in...

Екатерина Лебедева
May 14, 20204 min read


Arthur Lurie in the Russian avant-garde.
Arthur Lurie has become known as the leader of musical futurism and the Russian musical avant-garde.[3] Lev Alexandrovich Bruni. Portrait...

Timur Dzhanibekov
May 13, 20204 min read


Great noise
In the 1920s in Russia, noise begins to develop as a musical, theatrical and environmental phenomenon. [1] In 1913, the Maski magazine...

Daria
May 11, 20206 min read


"Art and Classes" B. Arvatov
“In the hands of the artist remains one craft. But if in the workshop society of the distant Middle Ages the artist and the practitioner...

Daria
May 11, 20208 min read
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