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Alexandr Radayev
Architecture · Mores · Paris
The Bataclan Theatre in Paris in 2021 and in 1920
The building won its fame precisely for its unusual architecture. It was originally a large café-chantant built in the fashionable chinoiserie style. The ground floor housed a café with a theatre, and above it was a large dance hall. In 1926 the building, inspired by Chinese architecture, was sold
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Nobody Will Believe It, But There Is No Need
NB! · Art · Madrid
Alicia Martín's sculpture "Biografías", Casa de América, Madrid, 2005
NB! · Archive · Books · Ethnography
Illustration from the book "Shamanic Beliefs of the Non-Russian Peoples of Eastern Siberia", 1890
Faith · Art · Books · Museums · Observations · Paris
"It is very hard for people to renounce the expediency of everything that happens in the world, and therefore hard to understand innocent suffering
"It is very hard for people to renounce the expediency of everything that happens in the world, and therefore hard to understand innocent suffering. To many it seems that if there is innocent suffering, then there is no God, no divine providence. This is one of the arguments of
NB! · Faith · Observations
Would You Like to Talk About God?
Art · Museums · Humour
Giuseppe Arcimboldo’s painting “Winter” of 1563 at the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna
Winter, Giuseppe Arcimboldo, 1563. Strange that there are no tangerines. Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
NB! · Archive · New York · Humour
Unexpected
Unexpected. The New Yorker, December 1939
Archive · Faith · Books · Monarchies · Society
A text on Freemasonry in Russia, its ban under Alexander I and the Illuminati
Some Excerpts from the Book "Freemasons as Enemies of the Christian Church and the State" ...Preaching complete non-interference in religious and state affairs, Freemasonry, with its closed character, its secret signs and rites, constituted a kind of separate secret state, which in governments was bound to arouse
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The Reverend Robert Walker Skating on Duddingston Loch, 1784, Sir Henry Raeburn, National Galleries of Scotland
Faith · Books · Society · People
Killing of Priest Pavel Dernov and His Three Sons in Yelabuga in February 1918
Author of the Famous Book "Freemasons as Enemies of the Christian Church and State": Hieromartyr Pavel Dernov (1870-1918) of the Synaxis of the New Martyrs and Confessors of the Russian Church. Father Pavel Dernov was a priest, preacher, writer, regular contributor to the Vyatka Diocesan Gazette and