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Tsesarevich Nicholas Alexandrovich as Onegin and Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna as Tatyana in a palace production of Eugene Onegin, 1890s

Books · Society

French Author Vincent Delacroix's Book on Illegal Migrants, "The Little Boat", Longlisted for the International Booker Prize for Literature

French author Vincent Delacroix's book on illegal migrants, "The Little Boat", has been longlisted for the International Booker Prize for Literature. Vincent Delacroix, winner of the Académie Française's Grand Prix du Roman in 2009, examines the tragic deaths of illegal migrants who try to

Faith · Observations · Society · People · Rome

Pope Francis shows signs of improvement, but prognosis remains cautious on the thirteenth day of hospitalisation

This is how Pope Francis looked at the general audience in the Vatican on 12 February 2025, two days before his hospitalisation. Although the Pope's condition is reported to be showing signs of improvement, Vatican officials have stressed that "the prognosis remains guarded", as his hospitalisation

Books · Society

Since there are no significant political forces opposing the transformation of our world into a universal marketplace, the conflict of our time is a struggle to preserve one's humanity in an ever more artificial world

Julius Evola

A painting of a young man lying on the ground in a forest, surrounded by half-naked women with sticks and a sickle, with a leopard on the left.

Art · Humour

Émile Lévy’s painting “The Death of Orpheus”, painted in 1866

"Orpheus is dead!" "What?" "Wake up, I'm telling you" The Death of Orpheus. Émile Lévy, 1866

In a black-and-white photograph, a man in a cap follows a plough drawn by two oxen, with the columns of a ruined temple on the hill behind under a cloudy sky.

Archive · Architecture · The East · Observations · Heritage · Humour

A farmer ploughs a field with oxen beside the ruins of an ancient temple

A farmer ploughs his field beside the 1st-century Temple of Zeus at Aizanoi, Turkey, 1970. And no tourists disturb his contemplation of this magnificence

Mosaic of four hockey players in red, green and blue kit fighting for the puck on the ice, with a bridge and city buildings behind the boards.

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Mosaic panel of hockey players battling for the puck

Coming Up · Art · Museums · Saint Petersburg

Deyneka's monumental panels shown at the Russian Museum for the first time in 50 years

The Russian Museum has shown Deineka's monumental panels for the first time in 50 years at the exhibition "Alexander Deineka. Singer of the New Life". The project is timed to coincide with the 125th anniversary of the eminent Soviet artist. The exhibition presents about 90 works

Black-and-white photograph of a dry riverbed with rock ledges, heaps of broken stone and a fenced path on the left.

Archive · Geography · Nature

Riverbed without water and heaps of fragmented rock in a black-and-white photograph

In 1969 Niagara Falls Was Halted for Several Months, and What Had Lain Hidden Under Water for Thousands of Years Came to Light. Nothing supernatural, however: a riverbed and fragments of rock

Black and white photograph of a man in a suit and polka dot tie holding a cigarette, wearing an ancient helmet that covers his face.

NB! · Archaeology · Archive · People

Archaeologist Manuel Esteve in a Corinthian helmet he discovered, 1938

The Spanish archaeologist Manuel Esteve poses in a Corinthian helmet he has discovered. 1938

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Pope Francis before his pontificate

Architecture · Moscow · Heritage · Society · Saint Petersburg

The Russian Academy of Architecture and Construction Sciences (RAACS) has published the minutes of a meeting of its Academic Council devoted to the preservation of Soviet modernist buildings of the 1960s to 1980s

The Russian Academy of Architecture and Construction Sciences (RAACS) has published the minutes of a meeting of its Academic Council devoted to the preservation of Soviet modernist buildings of the 1960s to 1980s. The decision to publish the minutes was taken on 12 February, in response to the lively debate

Alexandr Radayev