Archaeology · Science
A burial of 79 adult men with shackled wrists, discovered in 2016 in the Phaleron necropolis near Athens. The burial has been named the Esplanade. To this day there is no unambiguous answer to who they were and why they died together. The burial is dated to the turn of
Archive · Moscow · Education
Photo collage, 1934
Archive · Art
Photograph by Dmitry Baltermants, 1960s
Archive · Architecture · Moscow · Mores
A Muscovite Woman Choosing a Birch Broom at the Central Market in 1958. The Central Moscow Market stood at 15 Tsvetnoy Boulevard and at that time still operated out of wooden pavilions, before the construction of the city's first permanent covered market building. The multi-storey market was
NB! · Architecture · Art · Museums
Archive · Museums · Heritage · Paris
In August 1939, Jacques Jaujard, Director of the French National Museums, carried out the largest and most secret operation to save the world's art. A few days before the outbreak of the Second World War, the Louvre was suddenly closed to the public on the pretext of routine
Archive · Science · People · Nature · Saint Petersburg
The physiologist Ivan Pavlov with his colleagues and students of the Military Medical Academy before a demonstration of experiments on the transmission of conditioned reflexes. Professor Georgy Konradi recalled that Ivan Petrovich had quite literally grown into one with the dog as an object of study, and that when demonstrating
NB! · Archive · Architecture · Books · Education · Saint Petersburg
The ceremonial hall of the Academy of Arts library. Saint Petersburg, 1900s
Coming Up · Art · Moscow · Museums
At the Tretyakov Gallery on Kadashevskaya Embankment, a touching exhibition, "Flowers. A Symbol of Beauty", is running without much fuss, devoted entirely to the presence of flowers in Russian art. It opens with Kramskoy's "Bouquet of Flowers. Phloxes" of 1884, the only pure flower
Art
Chair with Crossed Legs. An art object by the Brazilian artist and designer Luis Filipe, conceived in 2004
Archive · Architecture · Heritage · Saint Petersburg
The Hall of the Muses in the Chinese Palace at Oranienbaum in 1947. Oranienbaum was the only one of the suburban residences of Saint Petersburg that did not fall under occupation during the Great Patriotic War. The Germans were stopped on the approaches to the town in September 1941, and
Observations · Science · Society · Nature
I have already told in detail how the last Turan tiger of the Great Steppe was killed by hunters in the last century. In 2025 I wrote that the actual release of tigers into the wild of Kazakhstan was still a long way off, and now it has come to