Let’s time travel again to Leningrad (aka St. Petersburg) in 1924. That’s when an unconventional chess match was performed by Peter Romanovsky and Ilya Rabinovich, two chess masters of the day. Apparently, they referred to as of their strikes over the telecellphone. After which real-life chess items—within the type of human beings and horses—have been moved throughout…
The Soviet Union’s repressive state censorship went to absurd lengths to control what its citizens learn, seen, and listened to, resembling the virtually comical elimination of purged former comrades from photographs during Stalin’s reign. When it got here to aesthetics, Stalinism mostly purged extra avant-garde tendencies from the humanities and literature in favor of didactic…
You recognize the sound of the theremin, that bizarre, conflictbly whine that signals mystery, danger, and otherworldly portent in lots of classic sci-fi movies. It has the distinction of being not solely the very first electronic instrument but in addition the one instrument in history one performs without ever contacting any a part of it. As…