Observations · Education · Society
It seems the Anglo-Saxons have finally surrendered. At any rate, they have certainly surrendered their language. The BBC website has a version in English, or, to put it as gently as possible, in its Afro-ghetto variety. Try reading any news item in this dialect. It is as though
Art · Cinema · New York
Wes Anderson's new film "The Phoenician Scheme" has opened in New York and Los Angeles. Its hero, Zsa-zsa Korda (played by Benicio del Toro), a charming swindler, hatches a grandiose transcontinental project, the "Phoenician Scheme". But his plan, as is the way of
Archaeology · Moscow · Museums
Specialists have completed the restoration and scholarly study of a hoard of sixteenth-century copper coins. It was found by the capital's archaeologists on Bolshaya Tatarskaya Street. Archaeological investigations were carried out here at several excavation sites at once in 2023–2024. An important part of the find
NB! · In the Press · Observations
It is very pleasing to see that, with the release of the fourth episode, my podcast has climbed to 15th place in the Russian charts! Thank you to everyone who is supporting it
The East · Art · Monarchies · Observations · Humour
Emperor Alexander I and Empress Elizabeth Alexeievna, Drawn in Japan. The august pair were captured by an artist who most probably never saw them and had not the faintest notion of their appearance, so that the realism of the portraits rests solely on pale skin and fair hair. I do
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Archive · Books · Heritage · Rome
The Vatican Apostolic Library Embarks on a Large-Scale Project to Restore and Digitise More Than 80,000 Ancient Manuscripts. The library's collection comprises more than 82,000 manuscripts and 1.6 million printed books, among them more than 8,000 incunabula, books printed before 1501. Its holdings
Faith · Moscow · Education · Humour
Time to Read the Akathists! The Bauman University student mailing list, as ever, is on top form
Archaeology · Architecture · The East · Heritage
Underground reservoir of the 10th to 11th centuries to open to visitors in Derbent. Derbent, with a history of more than 2,000 years, is one of the oldest cities in Russia
Faith · Art · People
Rubens's tomb is in St James's Church in Antwerp. His remains lie in the family vault beneath the funerary chapel built at the commission of his widow. The altar of the chapel is adorned with Rubens's painting of 1638, "Madonna Surrounded by Saints&
NB! · London · Museums · Observations · Heritage
The British Museum is simply a whole mountain of random things that were carried off from other countries and cultures. It only strengthens the view that being British is nothing to be proud of. The only thing that was British was the enormous queue at the entrance