Articles #335
The (underground) rooftops of Saint Petersburg
The Apostle Matthew on the roof of Saint Isaac's Cathedral in Saint Petersburgthe tower of Admiralty . The three most famous streets of the city emerge...
Cultural clashes that you will experience in Moscow
Russians are friendly, but in their styleWe do not want to deceive you: you will need several days to see all the essentials of the great Russian city,...
Soviet architecture (Part I): the avant-garde revolutionizes Russia
Shukhov Tower, designed by Russian engineer Vladimir ShukhovThat "architecture is the great book of humanity", as Victor Hugo said, is clearer in Russia...
Soviet architecture (part II): Stalinist imperialism
The VDNKh complex (Exhibition of Achievements of the National Economy)we stay in 1931 , buried in a hole in the center of Moscow. A good reflection...
Moscow, what to see in the city where the Earth begins
What to see in the city where the Earth beginsTo make a country, in the primers of Soviet schools there was a poem that recited like this: "Earth, as...
Yeliseyevsky closes, the mythical luxury grocery store in Moscow
Yeliseyevsky, end 120 years of an era in Moscow.Imperial Russia welcomed him in 1901 . You can imagine what it was like to open such a luxurious and...
Stay up late with class in Moscow
The nights on the terrace of the Ritz-Carlton, another levelOddly enough, spring has also arrived in the Russian capital and the terrace season is starting...
Four frames from Moscow
Red Square, with San Basilio in the backgroundIt has more than 1,000 km2 and 12 million inhabitants and is the city with the most millionaires in the...
'Vostok nº20', on board the train from Moscow to Beijing
From Moscow to Beijing from a litter."How will the time pass?", asks one of the workers of the Vostok 20 to the passengers who do not want to take any...
48 hours in Kyiv
You will be attracted by the morbidity of Chernobyl, you will stay to discover kyivMost of the visitors who come to Kyiv they do it motivated by the...
What does Kandinsky sound like?
Yellow, Red and Blue (1925), Vassily Kandinsky“The color is the keyboard, the eyes the harmonies, the soul is the piano with many strings. The artist...
When art seeks paradise
Matamoe (Paul Gauguin)Eden exists. It is not a celestial corner, nor a place above the clouds populated by characters with expressions of holiness.Each...