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Beneath the shattered gates of hell, through which Christ leads out Adam and the righteous dead before the Resurrection, we see evil, hideous and cowering, cast down by the power of Christ. The gates of hell in the Christian sense are first mentioned in the Gospel of Matthew: "And
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When we dream of a task, we like it; once we have set about it, it is dreadfully tedious. And that is only natural: in our thoughts the task appears to us whole, with its success, its happy results and other blessings, but once we begin to do it... the
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Christ in the Garden of Gethsemane, a painting by Arkhip Kuindzhi. This is the most enigmatic of Kuindzhi's works, which he showed, together with a few others, after 20 years of silence. And those who saw it were his 4 pupils. The second time, Kuindzhi showed the picture
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Nicely put: piety and virtues compelled many sovereigns to send ambassadors. And then Vladimir, having fortified his Realm with various strongholds and with the courage of the people he had enlightened, began to consider how he might establish peace among his children for all posterity, knowing that discord between brothers
Faith · Books · Mores
Holy Saturday, evening. The house is quiet; everyone has lain down for a while before Matins. I creep into the drawing-room to see what is going on in the street. Few people about; they carry Easter cakes and kulichi in cardboard boxes. The wallpaper in the room is pink,
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Catholic and Orthodox Easter fall on the same day in roughly a third of years. We shall be celebrating Easter on the same day in 2028, 2031, 2034, 2037, 2038, 2041, 2045 and 2048
Faith · Art · Museums · Paris · Saint Petersburg
Saint Petersburg, Imperial Glass Factory, 1810s. Crystal, opal glass, diamond-cut faceting, painting, gilding. «On the day of Holy Easter, 29 March, a thanksgiving service to the Lord God was offered in Paris, on the Place Louis XV, by the Russian clergy, in the presence of the Emperor Alexander, the
Faith · Books · Mores · Ethnography
Traditional Kulich Recipes from Elena Molokhovets's 1866 Cookbook. The book "A Gift to Young Housewives, or A Means of Reducing Household Expenses" by Elena Ivanovna Molokhovets was the most famous and influential cookery book in nineteenth-century Russia. After its first edition in 1861 it went
Architecture · Faith · Heritage · Rome
One of the Most Extraordinary Churches in Rome: the Basilica of San Saba on the Lesser Crest of the Aventine Hill. Mere walls of old plaster and a mere floor, one would think; yet in the Roman church of San Saba they form a veritable chronicle of styles. The church
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Yesterday my podcast appeared on new platforms, and today the second episode has arrived. We conclude our discussion of the plot of Season Three of "The White Lotus". We talk about poisonings, monkeys, women in search of spiritual growth, family squabbles, and all of it, of course, in