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Alexandr Radayev
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I dream of a hat like the one worn by Ivan Palaiologos in the fresco in the Medici Palace
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The American photographer Andrew McCarthy, known for his richly detailed images of space, has published a new, mesmerising photograph of the Moon
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Bearded man in white papal-style vestments holding a glass
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Old brick paving found beneath modern stone tiles in St Mark's Square in Venice
In Venice the modern paving of Piazza San Marco has been taken up, and beneath the stone slabs clinker brick has come to light. A viewing window with a section of the old paving may perhaps be kept, as in Moscow on Pushechnaya Street beside the Sophia Church
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A little girl in boots is weeping: The poor mite has lost her mother!
A little girl in boots is weeping: The poor mite has lost her mother! Enough of tears and sobbing, We must go and find her mother. Literal translation Do you know whose verses these are? Those of Elena Ulyeva, the most frequently published author in Russia after Korney Chukovsky, and
NB! · Cinema · Observations · People
Sergei Zhigunov is one of the first to come to mind when you ask which of our contemporaries ought to have lived in the nineteenth century
Faith · Art · Observations
A counting rhyme about the apostles and a miscount over Simon Peter
As a child I had a counting-out rhyme for memorising the apostles, but something in it troubled me: however I recited it, the count never came out right, and I kept ending up with 13 men. In time I even resigned myself to this, supposing that the odd man
NB! · Art · Ethnography
Engraving “December” by Adriaen Collaert after Hans Bol, Antwerp, 1580s
December. Engraving by Adriaen Collaert after a drawing by Hans Bol, Antwerp, 1580s.
Books · Observations
Seneca in “Moral Letters to Lucilius” on reading many books and peace of mind
"You do not wander, you do not trouble yourself with change of place. Such restlessness is the sign of a sick soul. I think the first proof of a tranquil mind is the ability to live settled and to remain with oneself. But consider: is not the reading of
Coming Up · Archive · Art · Moscow · Museums · Heritage
Ilya Repin's painting "Ivan the Terrible and His Son Ivan on 16 November 1581" returns to the permanent display of the Tretyakov Gallery, where an exhibition devoted to its large-scale restoration will open
The project is called "Ivan the Terrible and His Son Ivan. The Return". The display will include, among other things, studies and sketches reflecting the artist's long search for the composition, the types and the historical details. Archive documents will show the chronicle of the first
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