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Alexandr Radayev
Archive · Books · Moscow · Museums
The Hexameron Compiled by John the Exarch of Bulgaria, Pierced by a Bullet in the Library of the Historical Museum during the Revolutionary Fighting of October 1917
“The bullet exited through the lower board of the binding and lodged in the book. The bullet was removed and carried off by the piece-rate dusters in 1938.” Held in the Historical Library; the book can currently be seen at the exhibition in the Department of Rare Books
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Vasily Polenov designed the Church of the Holy Trinity in Bekhovo, consecrated in 1907
Church of the Holy Trinity, designed by Vasily Polenov, village of Bekhovo. The church was consecrated in 1907
Faith · Art · Books · Ethnography
Ivan Bunin’s 1893 poem “Trinity” about a village liturgy on the feast of Trinity
A droning bell calls us to prayer, Ringing on sunbeams over the cornfields; The distance of the water-meadows drowns in blue, And the river on the meadows sparkles and burns. And in the village since morning the liturgy goes on in the church: The whole ambo is strewn with
Art · Society · Nature
Boris Rogachevsky's 1986 poster showing the Earth under a drawn roof
There Is No Other Home! Poster by Boris Rogachevsky, 1986
Art · Heritage · Society · People
Giacomo Manzù stele for the Lenin centenary installed on Capri in 1970
Monument to Lenin on Capri. The five-metre marble stele by the Italian sculptor Giacomo Manzù was erected in 1970 in the Gardens of Augustus, to mark the centenary of Lenin's birth, at the commission of the Soviet embassy in Italy. The inscription on the stele reads: “A
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Vladimir Konashevich's Illustrations for Chukovsky's Fairy Tales
Geography · Observations
The Longest Place Name in Russia Without Spaces or Hyphens: Verkhnenovokutlumbetyevo (23 Letters)
The longest place name in Russia without spaces or hyphens is Verkhnenovokutlumbetyevo (23 letters). It is a village in the Matveyevsky District of Orenburg Oblast. As for settlements whose names are written with a hyphen, the longest name in Russia belongs to the village of Kremenchug-Konstantinovskoye in the Kabardino-
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The stranger who is among you shall mount above you higher and higher, and you shall go down lower and lower; he shall lend to you, and you shall not lend to him; he shall be the head, and you shall be the tail
Deuteronomy 28:43-44
Moscow · Museums · Pop Culture
Military chess, invented in the USSR in 1939, whose pieces include the regiment, platoon, army, division, company, battery, sapper, fortress, aviation and landmine
Military chess, invented in the USSR in 1939, whose pieces include the regiment, platoon, army, division, company, battery, sapper, fortress, aviation and landmine. And the board is divided by a river. It can be seen in the Underground Museum of Zaryadye at the exhibition “The Chess Code”
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enchanté, enchanté, dear lady
NB! · Art · Cinema · New York · People · Pop Culture · Humour
Adrien Brody makes his debut as a painter at an exhibition in New York
Paintings from Adrien Brody's debut exhibition in New York as proof that a man cannot be equally bad at two different things. And Brody the painter is even worse than Brody the actor