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Alexandr Radayev
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Nun Elizabeth, great-great-granddaughter of Napoleon I, and the Leuchtenberg family
In 2013, at the Monastery of the Protection of the Mother of God in Bussy-en-Othe, some hundred kilometres from Paris, the nun Elizabeth of Leuchtenberg peacefully departed to the Lord. She was one of the last Russian nuns of the first wave of emigration and, at the same
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Family tree of the Slavic languages in a book with pre-reform spelling
Science · Education
The Origin of the Russian Language:
Proto-Indo-Germanic, Slavo-Germanic, Balto-Slavic, primitive Slavic, South-Eastern Slavic, Russian
Archaeology · Mores · Ethnography
Roman amphora of two-year-aged tuna from Spain and fermented fish made in Chersonesos
This is what a tin can looked like in Ancient Rome. This clay amphora of AD 70-100, for instance, states that it contains young tuna, aged for two years. It is known that the amphora was prepared in the south of Spain. What sort of fish is aged for
Architecture · Faith · Cinema · Books · Moscow · Museums · Mores · Paris
A selection of articles on museum forgeries, etiquette, architecture and cinema
June's days are running out, so here is a round-up of this month's publications. The June digest takes in literary parallels, architecture, vampires, henpecked husbands and the artefacts of the Louvre. 📌 In the Parnassian Mockingbird cinema rubric: a piece on the first vampire serial 📌 The
NB! · Archive · Architecture · Rome
Greco-Roman Wrestling Among the Ruins of the Basilica of Maxentius in Rome, 1960
Museums · Heritage · Pop Culture
Studio Nyamakop releases Relooted, a game about returning African artefacts from museums
The South African studio Nyamakop has recently released Relooted, a side-scroller about a crew of thieves who, in the near future, break into the private collections of Western museums to return African artefacts to their homeland. According to the plot, the countries have signed a repatriation treaty, but it
Faith · Art · Museums
Christ and Three Angels, Antonello da Messina, 1476
Museo Correr, Venice. Da Messina was a gifted painter of the Early Renaissance, a native of Sicily. He is credited with introducing oil painting to Italy, which he mastered thanks to the Netherlanders and to Jan van Eyck, acknowledged as its genius.
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Children Sunbathing at the Arbatskaya Metro Station Entrance in Moscow in the 1960s
Children sunbathing near Arbatskaya metro station in the 1960s. Consider how much more human and simple life in Moscow was sixty years ago. Today the city is deprived of such ordinary joys, yet it is drowning in formal conveniences
Architecture · Art · Moscow · Observations
It Turns Out That Tsereteli's Monument to Peter Is Also Immortalised on a Medal for the 300th Anniversary of the Russian Navy
But a cursory glance through the catalogues reveals that this is not the only likeness of the disgraced monument on the artificial island at the confluence of the Moskva River and the Drainage Canal, not far from the Bersenevskaya Embankment. On the same occasion a whole series of similar medals
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