In our regular column “account of the week” I’m looking for interesting blogs worth subscribing. Today we are talking about the telegram “architectural excesses” (86.7 thousand subscribers) – the oldest and largest channel about architecture in Russia (and not only).

Who

The author of the project is Pavel Gnilorybov, historian, researcher at the Moscow Museum and author of a series of books on urban studies and Moscow studies. He has long been immersed in the subject – Gnilorybov’s first book was published in 2014 when he was 23 years old. Pavel is also known as the author of trips around Moscow.

About what

The canal is dedicated to architecture and urban spaces in all its diversity, from ancient temples to graffiti on transformers. Here the main focus is Russia, but there are notes on the CIS and foreign countries.

Carved tower in the village of Mari El Novy Mir

By subscribing, you can see ancient landmarks preserved in Arkhangelsk, futuristic public spaces with permeable asphalt in Japan, incredible Soviet mosaics, archive photos and newspaper clippings, pre-revolutionary train stations, Tbilisi samovar, Finnish entrances and much more.

By the way, lovers of mosaics should definitely subscribe – photos with them are posted quite often, and you can see not only the preserved front doors somewhere on the main street of the city, but also those who live their lives in abandoned bus stops. provincial.

Art object “lighthouse” on lake SenezhMosaic in a kindergarten in Krasnodar

Many of the photos are accompanied by short but informative comments about when and by whom the object was made, what happened to it, and what it is famous for.

The channel also has humor, with posts with a historical bias alternating with hilarious street art and meme images.

In addition to the Telegram account, the project also has a YouTube channel that publishes stories about different cities, videos about remarkable architectural monuments and historical reviews.

For whom

Of course for those who love local history and architecture. The channel will also be useful for those who are interested in domestic tourism, but are still at a loss and do not know where to start. By learning new things about different parts of the country, it will definitely be possible to find more than one fascinating route.