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Alexandr Radayev
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Still Lynch or Already Odin?
Archive · Art · Monarchies · Society · People · Saint Petersburg · Humour
VICTIM OF THE NEW ORDER
Mathilde Kschessinska: My intimate relations with the old government came easily to me: it consisted of just one man. But what am I to do now, when the new government, the Soviet of Workers' and Soldiers' Deputies, consists of 2,000 people? Caricature by Nikolai Remizov (Re-Mi)
Moscow · Heritage · Society · Nature
Almost 150 protected areas in Moscow change status from OOPT to OOZT
At the end of last December, the Moscow government, by a decree of its own, converted the city's specially protected natural areas of regional significance (SPNAs) into specially protected green areas (SPGAs) According to the document, almost 150 parks, nature reserves, natural monuments and other protected territories are
Archive · Paris · People
In 1939, Serge Lifar, dancer of the Ballets Russes and at that time principal ballet master of the Paris Opéra, came to visit the famous dancer Vaslav Nijinsky, who was undergoing treatment in a psychiatric clinic
In 1939, Serge Lifar, dancer of the Ballets Russes and at that time principal ballet master of the Paris Opéra, came to visit the famous dancer Vaslav Nijinsky, who was undergoing treatment in a psychiatric clinic. By 1939 Vaslav Nijinsky had been ill for almost 20 years. The ballet dancer
Art · Monarchies · People · Humour
Henry VIII: the Mouse King?
Cornelis Massys, 1548
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Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore, Headmaster of Hogwarts, Order of Merlin, Chief Warlock of the Wizengamot, Supreme Mugwump of the International Confederation of Wizards, founder and head of the Order of the Phoenix, 67 sales with Avito delivery, p
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The Sagrada Família in 1920
Monarchies · Observations · Pop Culture
Catherine the Great with the Dusha agenda to appear in Sid Meier’s Civilization VII
In the seventh instalment of the global strategy game Sid Meier’s Civilization, players will be able to take the part of Catherine the Great as one of the world leaders. Her agenda, moreover, is called Dusha. In the comments under the news, as you might imagine, the gates of
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The Beautiful Civilisation of the West, and the Wretched Ideological Superstructures That Will Drop Off It of Their Own Accord in the Fullness of Time
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Vladimir and Véra Nabokov at the Montreux Palace Hotel
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Sophia Loren by a sphinx and Cleopatra’s Needle, given to Britain in 1819
Sophia Loren in 1967 beside one of the two London sphinxes flanking the obelisk known as Cleopatra's Needle on the Victoria Embankment. The sphinxes are cast in bronze to frame the obelisk. The 18-metre obelisk was brought to London from Alexandria in 1877, although it had been