Painting of a man with a white stag's head sitting against a tree in a forest, pressing his hand to a wounded side.

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Actaeon saw Artemis bathing, was turned into a stag and killed by his own hounds

“Actaeon”, 2012, a painting by the Scottish artist Paul Reid. While out hunting, Actaeon saw Artemis and her nymphs bathing and, instead of averting his gaze and turning away, he began to watch a spectacle not meant for his eyes. Artemis caught him peeping and turned him into a stag.

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Queen Elizabeth so resembles her younger sister, Princess Margaret, that a newspaper, under a joint photograph of the two on their way to the dying Mary of Teck, found it necessary to specify that the queen is in the middle

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Back to exhibition reviews. At the New Tretyakov Gallery, the exhibition "The Road to the East. Russian Artists in Central Asia" runs until the end of September. The display tells of the place of Eastern motifs in the work of Russian modernist artists. The interest of Russian culture

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Peter I in the 1670s

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I don't know why, but pineapples are trying to escape from the pages of one of the greatest botanical books of the eighteenth century

The hand-coloured botanical atlas Plantae Selectae by Christoph Jacob Trew, 1771. The engravings were made after drawings by the outstanding botanical draughtsman Georg Dionysius Ehret

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Historian Adrien Richer on the deaths of Tsarevich Peter Petrovich and Tsarevich Alexey

In April 1719 Peter I's second son, Tsarevich Peter Petrovich, dies at the age of three and a half. The French historian Adrien Richer, in his History of … the Russians, published in 1770, suggests that Peter “felt that the priests and adherents of the old faith would not

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Tree topping in 1960s Paris in a photo of Audrey Hepburn and in Moscow

Bonsoir. Thanks to this photograph of Audrey Hepburn we know that in the Paris of the 1960s, too, there was the ruinous practice of crown-topping trees, which is now applied everywhere in Moscow and within a couple of years destroys healthy, sturdy trees. But note that there, at least,

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Rumyantsev's Embassy to Sweden in 1720 and Agreement on Peace Talks in Åbo

Since they write that the Northern War was recalled at today's negotiations, I too shall turn to the events that preceded the conclusion of the Peace of Nystad. So. The embassy to Sweden in September 1720, ostensibly to congratulate Frederick I on his recent coronation, was headed neither

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Bust of Peter the Great in Brussels and the legend of the Tsar's 1717 visit to the fountain

Does the bust of Peter the First in Brussels stand on the spot where the Tsar was sick after a drinking bout in April 1717? The bust is said to have been accompanied by a Latin inscription: "On 16 April 1717, at 3 o'clock in the afternoon,

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A legal dispute of almost a century over ownership of the property of the Hohenzollern royal dynasty has come to an end: the German federal government, together with the states of Berlin and Brandenburg, has reached an agreement with the descendants of th

The dispute began in 1926, when a treaty on the division of property after the fall of the monarchy in 1918 was signed between representatives of the House and the former state of Prussia. However, since the Hohenzollern property had been confiscated before the agreement was concluded, the legal questions

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Graffiti of a ship from the Cathedral of Saint Sophia in Constantinople

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Alexandr Radayev