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Alexandr Radayev
NB! · Archive · Paris · People · Pop Culture
Coco Chanel descending the staircase of her Paris atelier in 1961
Coco Chanel on the staircase of her atelier. Paris, 1961
Books · Society
N. A. Nekrasov in his poem “Sovremenniki” addresses the reader about the sons of his age
I took a book, risen from my sleep, And read in it: "There have been worse times, But none more base" I flung the book far from me. Can it be that you and I Are sons of such an age, O friend and reader mine?.. Literal translation
Books · Heritage · Society
Why do libraries need rare book departments, and why must they have a special regime of access?
The answer is very simple: the preservation of holdings. Between 2022 and 2023, a number of European countries recorded cases of rare antiquarian editions disappearing from public and university libraries. Among the lost copies are first editions published in the lifetimes of Pushkin, Gogol, Lermontov, Shevchenko, Kruchenykh and other authors
Cinema · Books · Mores · Pop Culture
Angela Lansbury in the 1944 film adaptation and the origin of the term gaslighting
Gaslighting, the familiar term for a form of psychological abuse, takes its name from the play “Gas Light”. The role in the 1944 film adaptation brought Angela Lansbury her first fame and her first Oscar nomination. She played the maid Nancy, who helped Mr Gregory Anton drive his wife, played
Architecture · Heritage · Mores · People · Rome
Designer Alessandro Michele on his apartment in the restored Palazzo Scapucci in Rome
“I am not sure that time passes as the calendar or the clock describes it. 800 years of these walls is, for me, the present. That is why I am not nostalgic. I never truly believe that those who are no longer alive have gone. Everyone leaves a deep imprint
Books · Observations
Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world
Arthur Schopenhauer
Archaeology · Museums · Science · Saint Petersburg
Cambridge archaeologists find hidden tattoos on Pazyryk woman's mummy held in the Hermitage
Intricate Tattoos Discovered on a 2,500-Year-Old Mummy from Siberia. British archaeologists from the University of Cambridge have used modern scanning methods to study the mummified remains of a woman of the Pazyryk culture, held in the Hermitage. The study, published in the journal Antiquity, revealed tattoos on
Faith · Art
The Master of the Magdalen Legend and his Holy Family of around 1515
An unidentified early Netherlandish painter, active approximately between 1483 and 1527. He is known by the name of the Master of the Magdalen Legend. The Holy Family. c. 1515 Joseph returns home with a basket of carpenter's tools. Jesus clutches at his mantle and points to Mary
Archive · Mores · Nature
A Ball on the Stump of a Giant Sequoia
A ball on the stump of a giant sequoia. In the largest living specimens of Sequoiadendron giganteum, the trunk reaches 10 metres in diameter. The oldest giant sequoias growing today are 3,200 to 3,500 years old.
NB! · Observations
A Construction Set After My Own Heart
Monarchies · Mores · People
A Pull-Up Bar and Exercise Machines in Tsar Nicholas II's Private Bathroom
If you do not know how to begin your day, recall that the Emperor of All Russia ruled the largest state in the world and still kept himself in splendid physical shape