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Alexandr Radayev
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Imagine, in 1939 people were saying: "Why do we need another adaptation of The Wizard of Oz, when we already had one 14 years ago?"
Observations · Society
It is odd that the President of Finland, sitting before Trump, recalls that the Finns found a solution in 1944
It is odd that the President of Finland, sitting before Trump, recalls that the Finns found a solution in 1944. After all, in the autumn of 1944 Finland, which had fought on the side of Nazi Germany and had been defeated by the USSR, first entered into negotiations on a
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Saint Luke Drawing the Virgin and Child
Faith · Art · Museums · Saint Petersburg
Saint Luke Drawing the Virgin, Rogier van der Weyden, 1440
One of the copies of this work is in the Hermitage
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Leonardo da Vinci's drawing of the head of a young woman
Leonardo da Vinci. Head of a Young Woman
Faith · Madrid · Observations · Society · Paris
Removal of crosses from posters, emblems and images of churches in Europe and Russia
Crosses vanish from Montmartre on Paris Olympics posters, crosses are removed from the badges of European football clubs, and in Spain a proposal has been made to pull down the monumental cross above the Valley of the Fallen. In Western Europe the wave of “de-crossing”, fuelled by embittered anticlericalism,
Art · Books · Mores · Paris
…gleaming with the whiteness of her shoulders, the glossiness of her hair and diamonds, she passed between the men who stood aside <...> granting each the right to admire the beauty of her figure, her full shoulders, her bosom and back, very bare accordin
…gleaming with the whiteness of her shoulders, the glossiness of her hair and diamonds, she passed between the men who stood aside <...> granting each the right to admire the beauty of her figure, her full shoulders, her bosom and back, very bare according to the fashion of the
The East · Monarchies · Society · Humour
A Turkish proverb about a clown who moves into a palace
When a clown moves into a palace, he does not become a king. The palace turns into a circus Turkish proverb
Books · Society
Alexander Prokhanov on the arrival of two presidents and their meeting on the red carpet
The presidents stepped out of their aircraft at the same moment, solitary, without retinue, and descended the steps as though two envoys of two great civilisations were coming down from the heavens. They walked along the red carpet, drawing closer, and it was frightening to think that they might miss
Art · Museums · Saint Petersburg · Ethnography
Figures in Russian and Bashkir national costume
Figures in Russian and Bashkir national costume. From the Berlin dessert service, after models by Friedrich Elias Meyer. Prussia, Berlin, Royal Porcelain Manufactory, 1770-1772. Porcelain, overglaze painting, gilding Hermitage Collection
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