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...center of Moscow. At night the city is awash with restaurants, many of them much more expensive than in London or Paris, though often of lesser quality. But there are also bargains, such as the concerts in the Conservatory, in small palaces, and even occasionally in the Pushkin Fine Arts Museum or the Tretyakov Gallery. All cost pennies. If you speak Russian, the superb plays directed by Kama Ginkas at the Young Spectators' Theater are another perfect way to get under this city's skin...
Lively and colorful, vigorous and buzzing, busy day and night, Pushkin Square is Moscow's Times Square. There is hardly a Muscovite who has never dived into the long underpass, colloquially known as the Pushka, that runs under the square, across Tverskaya Street and down to three main subway lines. So when a bomb went off in the cramped concrete maze last Tuesday at the height of rush hour, it did more than just tear the flesh of the 11 people who died and the 96 who were injured. It also charred the nation's hopes...
...evolution of avant-garde styles from long-standing traditions in art and literature are insightful. In her chapter on "The Futurist Shift," Gurianova draws a connection between Rozanova's lithographs made to embellish Kruchenykh's narrative poem Game in Hell and the "denizens of the underworld" of Gogol and Pushkin. Noting how Rozanova, in one of these lithographs, "Naked Witch with a Broom," plays with physical forms, assigning a witch's head to a devil's body and vice versa, Gurianova develops a key theme, the "play principle." Gurianova further identifies this displacement of objects and their parts...
...specialist in the study of 19th and 20th-century Russian poetry, Sandler published her first book, Distant Pleasures: Alexander Pushkin and the Writing of Exile...
...current projects include a co-edited collection entitled Self and Story in Russian History and a book-length study, Commemorating Pushkin: Russia's Myth of a National Poet...