14:47 Caffi. Voyage Along the Mediterranean
The exhibition in the General Staff building presents more than 100 works by Ippolito Caffi (1809-1866), one of the best known masters of the Venetian Veduta (urban landscape).

14:43 St. Petersburg: a museum of architecture
This is the last in a series of four columns written by my friend Gail Brownfield about her 1,000-mile journey by river from Moscow to St. Petersburg. On the 10th morning of our trip, I awoke as our floating hotel was docking in the passenger terminal...

14:32 Russian Catholics make pilgrimage to Rome
Russian Catholics have just ended what might have been their largest-ever pilgrimage to Rome in the post-Soviet era.