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Commentary on the Apocalypse by Beatus of Liébana, an eleventh-century book
The rider on the pale horse is Death. Exhibition at the National Library of France
Alexandr Radayev
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One of the most unusual manuscripts submitted for the new season of the Hypertext Prize is a work by the writer and science journalist Sergei Korostelev, "Earth — Venus: The Two Lives of Leonid Xanfomalidi"
It is a large-scale biography of the distinguished Russian astronomer and space researcher Leonid Vasilyevich Xanfomalidi (1932–2019). A Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, he led experiments on the Soviet automatic stations that explored Mars, Venus and Halley's Comet. Venus played a special part in Xanfomalidi&
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Sarah Bernhardt at Thirty, in Her Coffin
She is not dead. Merely asleep. Or rather, posing for a photograph in the character of a woman lying in a coffin. She died, after all, at 78. Until then she simply liked to lie in a coffin. And she had one installed at home as a bed. A fool
Faith · Books · London · Observations · People
Thomas Eliot and Virginia Woolf were friends for over twenty years, but when Eliot embraced Christianity, or rather, after a period of open hostility to the Church, gradually became a zealous believer, Woolf said: he is dead to all of us
Thomas Eliot and Virginia Woolf were friends for over twenty years, but when Eliot embraced Christianity, or rather, after a period of open hostility to the Church, gradually became a zealous believer, Woolf said: he is dead to all of us. She called his faith in God and the immortality
Art · Museums · Observations · Mores
The "Russian Incredible" exhibition has many paintings before which one stops with a lungful of air
But the painting "Aunt Sasha" by David Petrovich Shterenberg simply will not let go. From the collection of the State Russian Museum. 1922-1923. The Civil War has only just ended. Before us sits a Russian village woman in a cornflower-blue headscarf and blouse. She is no
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Pope Francis Is 88 and Has Pneumonia
In the Press · Art · London · Observations
Jo Vickery on the results of 2024 in the Russian art market in London
“For three years now London has held no Russian sale, the famous auction that had existed in one form or another since the late 1980s. It was a golden age: the descendants of Russian émigrés and celebrities such as Mstislav Rostropovich and Galina Vishnevskaya, or Prince and Princess Michael of
Cinema · Observations · Pop Culture
Jamie recreates a frame from the shower scene in “Psycho”, shot over a week in 70 takes
Wow, I had no idea that Jamie Lee Curtis is the daughter of Janet Leigh, the actress from "Psycho", and Tony Curtis, the actor from "Some Like It Hot" In this photograph Jamie poses in imitation of the shot from the shower scene in "Psycho&
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Since we are speaking of luxurious interiors today, here is another, in Ulyana Sergeenko's new "Orient Express" boutique
Since we are speaking of luxurious interiors today, here is another, in Ulyana Sergeenko's new "Orient Express" boutique. There is a great deal of polish and lacquered surface, magnificent work with veneer, combined with generous draping in velvet and vintage lighting: Murano chandeliers and vintage Art
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Table setting with a Le Train Bleu plate
Architecture · Heritage · Mores · Paris
The Le Train Bleu restaurant at the Gare de Lyon in Paris, a historic monument
The popular French restaurant Le Train Bleu, at the Gare de Lyon in Paris, is officially classed as a historic monument. The refined establishment takes its name from the famous luxury passenger train that ran to the French Riviera. But at the outset it was simply a buffet, the lavish
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Talleyrand's childhood injury, which sent him to seminary instead of military service
The Shoes of the Devil upon Two Sticks, and Louis-Philippe Supporting a Barely Upright Talleyrand. As you can see, old Talleyrand, author of the remark "Whole nations would be horrified if they knew what petty men rule over them", is wearing the orthopaedic footwear of his age.