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Alexandr Radayev
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Alexander Levin's poem about the struggle between the Beaver and the Goat
The struggle of Beaver and Goat goes on, the eternal game. The Goat calls himself a Beaver, and calls the Beaver a Goat. But the Beaver does not lag behind: he calls himself a Beaver, sings bold songs and brandishes an axe. The Goat is put in jail to sit,
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Deleted Scenes from the Film "Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears"
Architecture · Observations · Ethnography · Humour
If you want to give a pleasant surprise to your beloved from the house with the carved palisade, remember what the parts of a window surround are properly called
Sit down and learn them, I shall be round to test you
Books · Mores · People
Intelligence Is Moral Health, and Health Is Needed to Live Long, Not Only in Body but in Mind
The fundamental principle of the intelligentsia's ethos is intellectual freedom, freedom as a moral category. The cultivated person is unfree only in respect of his own conscience and his own thought. Dmitry Sergeyevich Likhachev, “Letters on the Good and the Beautiful”.
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I do not know whether such records are kept, but I may well own the longest sofa in the world, in case one should feel like stretching out one's very, very long legs of an evening
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Newspaper page with theatre reviews and a photo of actresses Nevskaya and Burtseva
Archive · In the Press · Books · Monarchies · Moscow · Society
Bulgakov's play "The Cabal of Hypocrites", written in 1929 and devoted to the hardships of Molière's life under the yoke of Louis XIV, was permitted to be staged only after the vigorous intervention of Gorky, after a conversation between the author and St
Rehearsals at the Moscow Art Theatre dragged on, however, and the play reached the stage only in February 1936, to colossal success! But first in "Sovetskoye iskusstvo" and then, barely a week later, in "Pravda", there appeared devastating reviews. I give the text of the "
Science · Education · Society
A US student demanded her tuition money back after catching her professor using ChatGPT
Ella Stapleton, a student at Northeastern University, has demanded the return of $8,000 in tuition fees after discovering that her lecturer had used AI to produce teaching materials and prepare for classes, even though students are forbidden to use neural networks. The student noticed obvious signs of AI use
Faith · Monarchies · Observations · Rome
The 1963 coronation of Paul VI and the later popes' abandonment of the tiara
The other day we recalled the papal portable throne, the Sedia Gestatoria. It was the very one used at the coronations of popes. On 31 June 1963 took place the first coronation of a Pope since 970 held not inside St Peter's Basilica but in the open air,
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Three beekeepers in hooded masks with wicker hives before a village
NB! · Faith · People
Pope Benedict XV declared Joan of Arc a saint in 1920
Joan of Arc was canonised little more than a hundred years ago. On this day in 1920, Pope Benedict XV proclaimed Joan of Arc a saint