NB! · Archaeology · The East · Art
Alexandr Radayev
NB! · Archive · Art · People
Salvador Dalí, 1949
Art · London · Museums
Gondola cup with a figure personifying Spring, made at Fontainebleau, circa 1620-1625
Gondola cup with a figure personifying Spring, made at Fontainebleau, circa 1620-1625. Victoria and Albert Museum, London. And John Everett Millais's "Ophelia"
Architecture · Art · Monarchies
Jean Daret's trompe-l'œil at the Hôtel de Châteaurenard and the visit of Louis XIV
Louis XIV was delighted with the decor of the Hôtel de Châteaurenard in Aix-en-Provence. The decoration of the central staircase is executed in the genre of trompe-l'œil, or "fool the eye", popular since antiquity. Trompe-l'œil is when you see something
NB! · Geography · Observations · Nature
The Earth seen from the Pacific Ocean, with almost no land in view
Our planet from a rare angle. Few people know it, but this is how the Earth looks from the side of the Pacific Ocean
NB! · Books · Mores · Humour
Alexander Semyonovich Shishkov, champion of the old style, proposed to use "sharokat" instead of the word billiards, and "sharopikh" instead of the word cue
Faith · Society
Czechia refuses to extend the residence permit of Archpriest Nikolai Lishenyuk, aged 51, who served in Karlovy Vary from 2006 to 2022
Although the Czech security services have presented no evidence of any political activity on the part of Fr Nikolai, they accuse him of creating some kind of structure of influence with the support of Russian state bodies, and of posing a potential threat to the security of the state. Archpriest
Books
Varlam Shalamov on his poems, which were born on Sundays and survived
With cave dust, with blue mould My poems are smeared. They were born on Sundays, Sparing of words and quiet. They grew up fast, like beasts, Baptised with Epiphany snow In frosty darkness, in marsh damp. And yet they survived. They do not boast of ancestors, They care nothing for
NB! · Archive · Mores · People
Soviet People, Photographs by Henri Cartier-Bresson
Archaeology · Faith · The East · Monarchies
Mount Nemrut in south-eastern Turkey is famous for the tomb of Antiochus I, who lived from 69 to 34 BC and ruled Commagene, an ancient Armenian kingdom of the Hellenistic period in Asia Minor
Mount Nemrut in south-eastern Turkey is famous for the tomb of Antiochus I, who lived from 69 to 34 BC and ruled Commagene, an ancient Armenian kingdom of the Hellenistic period in Asia Minor. The history of the Commagenian kingdom unfolded at the meeting point of Persian and Greek
NB! · Observations · Society
The French Colonies, for Which, in Essence, the French Are Now Paying with the De-Christianisation of France and the Replacement of Its Native Population
Architecture · Faith · Heritage · Society
Silver items stolen from an English abbey, damage estimated at one hundred thousand pounds
A few days ago in the English county of Dorset, the 1,300-year-old doors of Sherborne Abbey were broken open and church silver stolen. The damage done to one of the most significant and beautiful churches in England is estimated at a hundred thousand pounds. Among the stolen