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Three-legged winged bronze chair by Mark Brazier-Jones, 1990
Marc Brazier-Jones, Three-Legged Winged Chair, bronze, 1990. I reckon one ought to take it
Alexandr Radayev
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Julia Roberts during the filming of "Wild Horses of Mongolia" in 1999
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Greek police prepare to evict 118 monks from Esphigmenou Monastery on Mount Athos
Greek police are preparing to storm the Orthodox pilgrim monastery of Esphigmenou on Mount Athos. In the news reports the monastery is called nothing but schismatic, because for many years Esphigmenou has stood in opposition to the rest of the Holy Mountain, to the Patriarchate of Constantinople and to the
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Death penalty for preventing the celebration of the liturgy in church
For such crimes, the Council Code of Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich prescribed the following:. "And should any miscreant, coming into the church of God during the holy liturgy, by whatever means prevent the divine liturgy from being performed: then, having seized him and established the truth of the matter, that
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Saint-Germain-des-Prés gallery owners complain about barriers and QR code passes during the Olympics
Art gallery owners in some Paris neighbourhoods complain that, despite the appeals for a cultural contribution to the Olympics, access to their galleries has simply been blocked. And the question is no longer one of boosting sales in the tourist season, but of how the gallery staff themselves are to
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Works by Alexandra Exter at the exhibition “Girlfriends” for Varvara Stepanova’s anniversary at the Pushkin Museum
Works by Alexandra Exter, one of the key women artists of Russian Constructivism, at the exhibition "Friends. For the Anniversary of Varvara Stepanova", which opened yesterday in the Gallery of European and American Art of the 19th and 20th Centuries at the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts
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Genre painting urging the English in wartime to eat simple, readily available food
“Dig for Victory: The Wise Eat More Potatoes”, Charles Spencelayh, 1942. A genre painting with a social purpose, urging the English in the hard years of war to change their consumer habits in favour of simple, readily available foodstuffs
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The risen Christ as a gardener and Mary recognising his voice
Mary Magdalene Did Not Recognise the Risen Christ and Took Him for the Gardener. The motif of the risen and unrecognised Christ recurs several times in the Gospel accounts, but it is in the guise of a gardener that the Saviour is at his most enigmatic. Mary did not recognise
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Recognised?
Recognised? This is "Rozanova Dancing". The artist Varvara Stepanova has drawn the artist Olga Rozanova. A little masterpiece from the exhibition "Friends. For the Anniversary of Varvara Stepanova" at the Pushkin Museum, Gallery of European and American Art
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Gilded cylindrical casket holding a tightly wound scroll
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A silver casket with a scroll is kept in the Archive of Ancient Acts
A silver casket with a scroll is kept in the Archive of Ancient Acts. The casket was made in 1767, and a scroll 309 metres long, with 959 glued joins, was placed in it. The scroll contains the Law Code (Sobornoye Ulozheniye) of Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich of 1649, bearing the
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Abdication of Nicholas II in favour of Mikhail, signed in pencil and backdated
Speaking of disputed abdications in history, one of the most famous is surely that of Nicholas II, signed in plain pencil. As you can see, the document bears in its lower right corner the autograph signature of Emperor Nicholas II in plain pencil: “Nikolai”; in the lower left corner, a