A criminal case is opened in connection with the destruction of Mephistopheles © Nikolai Zykov / Facebook Today, on August 27, on the fact of the destruction of the sculpture of Mephistopheles, a criminal case has been opened on the architectural monument in St. Petersburg under the article “Destruction or damage to cultural heritage objects”. This was reported by TASS with reference to the representative of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in St.

The responsibility for the destruction of the sculpture of Mephistopheles was taken by the "Cossacks of St. Petersburg" The former head of the Cossacks of St. Petersburg Denis Gorchin said that the sculpture of Mephistopheles from the facade of the house on the Petrograd side was shot down by members of his organization. The letter signed by him was published by Fontanka.ru . The Cossacks of St.

Colta.ru invites to the "Island of the 90s" © Leo Erken On September 20, in the Moscow Museon Park “Museon”, CoLTA.RU will hold the festival “Island of the 90s”-about the whole best that was in the culture of the 1990s: new music, media, literature, cinema, fashion and entertainment. “The first post -Soviet decade is a contradictory and interesting time in the modern history of Russia: the time whose generous heritage is not yet meaningful.

From the author Each house-museum has two key figures: a person who is dedicated to a museum, and a person who devotes himself to serving this peculiar cult. The heroines of this series are the keeper of provincial museum houses. They work there not one year, but in some cases - for more than a dozen years. Often this place of work was not their conscious choice, so life developed, but over time, these museums became something more than just work.

RVIO creates an alternative to Wikipedia In October, the Ripedia website (Russian historical encyclopedia) will work, which the Russian Military Historical Society (RVIO) creates as an alternative to the online encyclopedia Wikipedia. According to Izvestia , initially the site will be about 24 thousand articles from the Great Russian Encyclopedia, the Orthodox Encyclopedia, two volumes of the historical encyclopedia, as well as about 4,000 copyright articles.

Come to our festival "Island of the 90s"! The entrance is free. The program is here On September 20, in the Moscow Arts Park Museon Colta.ru in partnership with the Foundation "Presidential Center B.N. Yeltsin ”(Yeltsin Center) and the educational portal“ Your History ” will hold a free festival “ Island of the 90s ” , in the final of which the Auktsyon group, the authors of one of the most important albums of that decade“ Poultry ”, will perform with a special concert.

. . . On September 2, a festival of films about the city (and people living in it) “Center” begins at the Moscow Center for Documentary Cinema. The extensive program “Center” included paintings about Amy Winehaus (“Amy” - the opening film), recently opened by the great city photographer Vivian Mayer (“In search of Vivian Mayer”), Amsterdam Reachsmuzumu (“New Reachsmuzum”) and other documentary hits of the last year.

A festival of texts about art will be held in Nizhny Novgorod © Volga-Vyatka branch of the GTSIS From September 17 to September 20, the Volga-Vyatka branch of the state-owned center of contemporary art will hold a festival of texts about the art of Georgio Vazari in the Arsenal of the Nizhny Novgorod Kremlin. The festival will be attended by academic institutions, publishers, periodicals, network and television projects about classical and contemporary art.

The cost of restoration of exhibits from the Manege will exceed a million rubles © MVO "Manege" The restoration of works damaged on August 14 during an attack on the exhibition “Sculptures that we do not see” in the Moscow “Manege” will cost 1.1 million rubles. The full amount of damage has not yet been determined. This was reported by the Moscow Agency with reference to the press secretary of the Museum and Exhibition Association "Manege" Elena Karneeva.

A sculpture on a historical building was destroyed in St. Petersburg © Vadim F. Lurie On Wednesday, August 26, on Lakhtinskaya Street in St. Petersburg, unknown people shot down the sculpture of Mephistopheles from the facade of the building, which is an architectural monument. This was announced on Facebook by a local resident, historian Dmitry Bratkin.

Lenfilm opens its own movie center © "Lenfilm" Today, August 27, in the main building of the Lenfilm film studio on Kamennoostrovsky Prospekt in St. Petersburg, the opening ceremony of the Lenfilm film center will be held. It is reported by RIA Novosti with reference to the Lenfilm film studio. The film center has an exhibition space, a cafe, a souvenir kiosk and a modernized historical cinema, Lenfilm, in which both new films and paintings from the studio collection will be demonstrated.