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Fashion exhibitions until January 2026, from Paul Poiret and Worth to Rick Owens and the Louvre

Tomorrow brings our customary roundup of new museum and gallery exhibitions in Moscow, but today I suggest you save a route through the fashion exhibitions now running in Paris. 📌 Paul Poiret, la mode est une fête. Musée des Arts Décoratifs (MAD) - until 11 January 2026. A major retrospective of a

NB! · Art · Paris

Commode created by the decorator André Goult together with his brother-in-law Paul Poiret in 1935

Open book with a table of the populations of London, New York, Paris, Berlin, Saint Petersburg and Moscow for 1800 to 1901.

Geography · London · Moscow · New York · Society · Paris · Saint Petersburg

Population growth of Moscow and Saint Petersburg from 1800 to 1900

Population of London, New York, Paris, Berlin, Saint Petersburg and Moscow in 1800, 1830, 1871 and 1900. Moscow: 250,000 - 305,000 - 601,000 - 1,175,000 Saint Petersburg: 220,000 - 442,000 - 668,000 - 1,418,000

Faith · Books · Observations

Monk Simeon of Athos on suffering, forgiveness, listening and peace of soul

Who is the best teacher? – Suffering. Who is the worst teacher? – Pleasure. What is the rarest skill? – The ability to give. What is the greatest skill? – The ability to forgive. What is the most difficult skill? – The ability to keep silent. What is the most important skill? – The ability to

Books · Observations

Machines and a mechanical doll in Alexander Grin’s 1921 novella “The Grey Automobile”

Beware of things! They enslave us very quickly and very firmly! So Ebenezer Sidney, the hero of Alexander Grin's novella “The Grey Motor-Car”, warns his interlocutor as he reflects on the degree to which mechanical objects (or creatures) may be endowed with life. I recalled the story

Books · Observations · Society · Humour

And the weaver, and Babarikha, and the crooked cook sit round the Tsar, staring like evil toads

A quotation from a Doctor of Sciences on an analytical programme on Channel One about the meeting in Alaska. There will be no other analysis today

Books · Science · Palaeontology · Nature

Yevgeny Yevtushenko on the last mammoth and the Yakutian mummy of Yuka the mammoth

He trod with difficulty along the spur above the ice-bound river. There used to be many of them, the proud ones, many, and he was the last of such. Tried more than once in the storm, today he gave way, as if out of spite. From the arrows sticking

NB! · Observations

Good Morning

Two men in dark suits shake hands on a red carpet on an airfield. Behind them are aircraft stairs, a uniformed officer and a line of people in formal clothes.

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Two men shake hands on a red carpet at an airfield

NB! · Observations · Humour

As My Great-Grandfather Used to Say: Well, Is Everyone Here?

Satellite image of Anchorage, Alaska, showing the airport, the bay and city blocks, taken by the Resurs-P satellite on 6 August 2025.

Geography · Science · Society

Roscosmos publishes satellite images of Alaska and Anchorage ahead of the 15 August talks

Roscosmos on What Is Happening in Alaska. Images received from the Elektro-L and Arktika-M satellites show that the territory of Alaska is for the most part covered by cloud. A high-resolution image of Anchorage was taken by the Resurs-P satellite

NB! · Humour

Alexandr Radayev