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Nicholas II in Kostroma in 1913 during the journey for the Romanov tercentenary

The People of Kostroma Greet the Imperial Family in May 1913. In the 23 years of his reign Nicholas II did not travel much about Russia, Crimea, Finland and the hunting at Spała excepted. His meetings with the people were few. The celebration of the tercentenary of the ruling house

NB! · Archive · People · Saint Petersburg

Joseph Brodsky in Leningrad on the day of his departure from the USSR, 4 June 1972

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The Agitation Squadron of Soviet Magazines, Founded in 1932 on the Initiative of Ogonyok

One of the Most Spectacular Sights in the History of World Aviation: the Agitprop Aeroplane of the Magazine Krokodil, an ANT-9 from the Experimental Series. Yes, exactly so: in the 1930s Soviet magazines had aeroplanes of their own. An entire air fleet. The first to think of raising money

Cinema · Moscow · Observations · Society · Nature · Humour

Letter from Petya and Vova to the Crocodile about the Berezayka river and a chemical factory

Dear Crocodile, we need you very much. We have a little river. Next to it there is a big chemical factory. It is spoiling the river, and soon there will be no river, only one big inkwell. We are writing to you because you are held in great esteem. Come

Black-and-white photograph of a camel driver leading a camel with a tourist along a road, with more camels and a building behind a wall.

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Soviet tourists travel by camel to the pyramids, Cairo, 1958

A caravan of Soviet tourists makes its way to the pyramids. Cairo, 1958

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I Am Not Quite Sure How Gena the Crocodile Meant to Wear Swimming Trunks

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Tatiana Nikitichna Tolstaya as a Child

Archaeology · Observations · Science · Humour

History teacher Adrian Targett shares a maternal ancestor with Cheddar Man

Read in a newspaper 19 years old how a British history teacher, Adrian Targett, learned that he shares mitochondrial DNA with Cheddar Man, found in Gough's Cave in 1903 and some 10,000 years old. What is more, Targett and his family had lived all their lives literally

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Something Strange at the Institute of Art History

Something strange at the Institute of Art History. No one will own up to whose brushes these are

Archive · Architecture · New York · People

Envy of the Soviet Passport against the Brooklyn Bridge and the legendary neo-Gothic Woolworth Building, at the time of the photograph the tallest building in the world

That is to say, the page from issue 7 of the magazine "USSR in Construction" for 1940 is a photomontage. Mayakovsky, in overcoat and hat, holding a gigantic Soviet foreign passport, was superimposed on this historic photograph by Irving Underhill, taken in 1921. The most amusing thing is

Coming Up · Art · Moscow · Observations

Gosha Ostretsov’s exhibition “Utopia” opens at the Institute of Art History on Kozitsky

At the Institute of Art History on Kozitsky Lane, Gosha Ostretsov's exhibition "Utopia" has opened, a sort of itinerary through the artist's universe, with works from the 1990s to the 2020s. In the absence of a curatorial text, all that remains is to watch

A dark plinth holds a sculptural piece with an orange serpentine form and blue lighting. Behind it, two paintings with orange and yellow ribbons hang on a green wall.

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Alexandr Radayev