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Cultureteca 19.04.20

Miscellany
The new phase of life under coronavirus no longer sees rapid societal shifts and exponential spread, but rather stolid perseverance under creeping restrictions as deaths and rates of infection stabilise while exacting a hefty toll. At the start of the week cases in China climbed beyond 100 for the first time since early March, as the country reported 108...

Cultureteca 15.12.19

Miscellany
In November 2015, the World Anti-Doping Agency released a highly anticipated report into allegations of misconduct within Russian athletics. Finding that the Russian authorities had engaged in a widespread pattern of doping, cover-ups, and extortion, WADA recommended the banning of Russia from all international athletic endeavour. The International Association of Athletics Federations - recently rebranded as World Athletics -...

Pyotr F. Sokolov: Watercolour Portraits in the Age of Pushkin

Art
Beyond the Cyrillic curve and the printed page, if the Golden Age of Russian poetry has a visual representative it may lie in the works of Pyotr F. Sokolov. From the early 1810s until the time of his death in the late 1840s, Sokolov painted in aquarelle portraits of the society figures who inhabited an elite cultural milieu in...