Archaeology · Art · Museums · Heritage
Even 80 years after the end of the Second World War, stolen works of art continue to return to their rightful owners. Among the recent high-profile cases of restitution is the return to the granddaughters of the Viennese collector Adalbert Parlagi of Claude Monet's painting "The
Archaeology · Museums · Heritage
Fine gold Roman helmets of the fourth century from the Museum of Vojvodina in Novi Sad, Serbia. These are the so-called Berkasovo-Jarak helmets. Two similar gold pieces were found in one place. They probably belong to a hoard assembled by a barbarian warrior after combing a battlefield. The
Observations · Society · Pop Culture · Humour
Loro Piana placed under judicial administration after details emerge of its clandestine production in illegal Chinese workshops right in Milan. Serious labour violations in the Italian fashion industry have long been a matter of talk, and every so often the fashion world is rocked by another scandal. Dior, Valentino and
Coming Up · Art · Museums · Observations · Saint Petersburg
Fresh impressions of the new exhibition at the Horse Guards Manege in Saint Petersburg, "Photographic Art. From the Daguerreotype to Artificial Intelligence". The exhibition is very large: one can wander happily for several hours, for it occupies two floors of the Manege. It opens with the very first
Faith · Observations · Society · Humour
The Prime Minister of the French Republic, François Bayrou, has proposed abolishing the day off on Easter Monday and on Victory Day, which in France, as in other European countries, falls on 8 May. Formally, this is to cut the budget deficit. Of the 11 public holidays on which the
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Faith · Art · Books · Moscow · Museums · Heritage
The Khludov Psalter, created in the mid-ninth century, has been recognised as a UNESCO monument and inscribed in the Memory of the World International Register. The Khludov Psalter is an outstanding work, and one of only three early monuments of Byzantine art to have survived to our day. It
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Comrades, why are you crowding into a queue when the ticket terminals are perfectly free? A strange habit, all the same
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I cannot describe the feeling with which the museum attendant learned that the figure in Vlad Mamyshev-Monroe's photograph is a man in disguise. Thank you, Lord, that naivety still lives among people, and a truly holy simplicity
NB! · Faith · The East · Observations · Ethnography · Humour
Astonished by the qualities of the Korean mythical creature Yeongno, which devours corrupt aristocrats and state officials, and which, if it consumes a hundred such wealthy men in the course of its life, is admitted to paradise. Fairy tales one longs to believe in
Archive · Moscow · Pop Culture · Humour
L. P. Orlova, back at the Mossovet Theatre after yet another successful plastic surgery operation, discovers in the programme for the production of "The Strange Mrs Savage" the name of V. P. Maretskaya set against her own role of Mrs Savage, 15 February 1973. Dissatisfied with V. P.