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The tower of the monastery at which the first English expedition, led by Richard Chancellor, landed in the sixteenth century. The only wooden structure of the Nikolo-Korelsky Monastery to have survived to our day stands in Moscow, on the grounds of the Kolomenskoye Museum-Reserve. The monastery, at the
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Colette with her third husband, the Jewish businessman Maurice Goudeket, in 1950, four years before her death. Maurice Goudeket entered the life of the French writer Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette in the early 1930s, when she was already a national celebrity. They met through mutual acquaintances from literary circles. At first
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The string of absurd updates to the file on the disgraceful Louvre robbery seems destined never to end. New glaring details have come to light, but the chief detail remains unchanged: so far, we have not seen a single resignation. How about this? A month and a half before the
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Golden vase depicting winged bulls, found in a tomb at Marlik, in north-eastern Iran, that is, on the south-eastern shore of the Caspian Sea, in the territory of the ancient satrapy of Hyrcania. 12th-10th centuries BC. National Museum of Iran, Tehran
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The Dresden State Art Collections were hit by a cyberattack on 21 January 2026. As a result, online services have stopped working: the web shop, ticket sales and visitor services. The museums remain open, the security systems are functioning, and tickets purchased before the attack remain valid. The police and
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The Louvre and the National Galleries of Scotland lent Chardin's still lifes, sung by Diderot, for Dior's summer collection show in June 2025. Two paintings by one of the greatest realist artists of the 18th century graced the debut show of Jonathan Anderson, the new creative
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Spanish fresco of the first half of the twelfth century from the monastery church of San Baudelio de Berlanga. Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art
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The celebrated church, revered throughout Belarus, stands within one of the oldest Orthodox monasteries of Eastern Europe, the Convent of Saint Euphrosyne of Polotsk (the Saviour-Euphrosyne Monastery) in Polotsk. The stone church was built at the behest of Euphrosyne of Polotsk on the site of a wooden church, according
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So strangely freely and simply The meaning of being is revealed to me, And what lies hidden in the seed of "I", And the secret of blossoming and growth. In the plant and in the stone, everywhere, In the water, in the clouds above the mountains, And in
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Among the political terms of the sale were a US guarantee of Denmark's neutrality and US recognition of Danish sovereignty over Greenland. The islands, now known as the Virgin Islands, cost the USA a mere 25 million dollars. For Denmark these colonial territories, with a population of around