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Alexandr Radayev
Archive · Books · Society · Saint Petersburg
Émigré caricatures of early 1920s life in Bolshevik Petrograd
Illustrations to the rare émigré publication “There! Pictures of the Soviet Paradise” of the early 1920s. The new life in Bolshevik Petrograd is depicted by the authors with scrawny cows in city courtyards, starving people in a canteen, unbuttoned sailors and their drunken girlfriends from the Cheka, and workers sleeping
Art · Monarchies · Moscow · Museums
State Historical Museum opens exhibition for the 200th anniversary of Nicholas I's accession to the throne
The State Historical Museum has opened the exhibition "Nicholas I. The Ideal Autocrat," marking the 200th anniversary of the accession to the throne of one of the most contradictory monarchs of the Russian Empire. The exhibition presents more than 260 items, including Nicholas I's personal belongings,
Archaeology · Architecture · Museums · Palaeontology · Ethnography
Krasnoyarsk Regional Museum in the Egyptian style, designed by Leonid Chernyshyov
An Ancient Egyptian Temple in the Middle of Siberia. What? Yes The Krasnoyarsk Museum of Local Lore is one of the oldest museums in Siberia and the Far East and one of the largest in Russia. Its building, designed in the Egyptian style, was the work of the distinguished Krasnoyarsk
Faith · Interviews · Society · People
Democracy is not necessarily the ideal solution to all problems
Pope Leo XIV. Prevost voiced this thought in a recent interview entitled "Synodality", which presents it as the way in which believers are together and strive for communion, embodied by the Church. Church belonging he calls an antidote to polarisation. If we listen to the Gospel, if we
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Expressionist painting of a figure in green and yellow against a red background
Art · Pop Culture
"Vertumnus" by Giuseppe Arcimboldo, late sixteenth century
"Avion skandia" by Bengt Lindström, 1985
Art · Observations · New York · Pop Culture · Humour
Christie’s closes its digital art and NFT department amid declining interest
Christie's is closing its digital art and NFT department. One rather suspects they were the only ones left who remembered what it was. The decision, well, who would have thought? is connected both with the global slump in interest in NFTs and with broader shifts in the art
Archive · Nature · Ethnography
Not Caught, but Given
An Italian woman in the commune of Bagnara Calabra, known as the swordfish capital, with what turns out to be the chief local souvenir Photograph of 1945
Art · Observations · Humour
Work by American artist Norwood MacGilvary showing figures among the stars
The Birth of an Idea, 1920. The American artist Norwood MacGilvary. Could not put it better.
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Vasily Slonov's art object became a dessert at the Tunguska restaurant in Krasnoyarsk
An art object in the style of the "Apocalypse Quilted Jackets" by the Krasnoyarsk artist Vasily Slonov has become a dessert at the local restaurant Tunguska. The pieces of cotton wool are inedible. The dessert proper, the blade of the knife, is made of ice cream with white
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