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Alexander III with his children watering trees in the garden
Late 1880s.
Alexandr Radayev
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L. Masterkova, abstract composition with mesh, 1967
Coming Up · Art · Moscow · Society
Q-ART Gallery opens “Green Light for the Underground” for the 50th anniversary of the Izmailovo exhibition
The second part of the exhibition project "Belyayevo — Izmaylovo. Nonconformism from the Q-ART Collection", entitled "Green Light for the Underground", has opened at Q-ART Gallery. It is dedicated to the fiftieth anniversary of the exhibition of nonconformist artists in Izmaylovo Park, held two weeks
NB! · Humour
Don't Worry, They Are Not Enjoying Themselves, They Are Only Pretending
Art · Museums · People
Johann Tischbein's Portrait of Goethe and the Unusual Depiction of the Legs
Johann Tischbein is known largely for having painted portraits of his friend Johann Wolfgang Goethe. Before us is one of the most famous portraits of Goethe, by Tischbein himself. The thinker, in the pose of an ancient Roman, has settled on a ruined Egyptian obelisk beneath an ivory-coloured plaid,
NB! · Architecture · Observations · Heritage
Sometimes I think that if this house is ever scrubbed clean and repainted, it will no longer be the same, and we shall not be able to love each other as before
Sometimes I think that if this house is ever scrubbed clean and repainted, it will no longer be the same, and we shall not be able to love each other as before. Please, do not show it to the municipal services for at least 15 years 🥲💔
NB! · Aristocracy · Archive · Monarchies
The daughters of Emperor Nicholas II out walking with Anna Vyrubova, the closest and most devoted friend of Empress Alexandra Feodorovna
NB! · Books · Observations
This photograph could grace the cover of Carlos Ruiz Zafón's «The Shadow of the Wind»
NB! · Humour
The Main Thing Is Not to Mix Anything Up
NB! · Humour
So Franklin, Apparently, Is Our Venya!
NB! · Observations
People Managed Perfectly Well Before, and Without Computers
NB! · Monarchies · Science · Pop Culture · Humour
Woman sees face of Princess Diana in slice of tinned ham
A woman has seen the face of Princess Diana in a slice of tinned ham. Though it looks rather more like Margaret Thatcher, my dear, or like pareidolia, the psychological phenomenon whereby people see faces in all manner of everyday objects, surfaces, abstract textures and details of the landscape