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Alexandr Radayev
Interviews · Books · Museums · Reportage
The 8th “Tolstoy” Theatre Festival at Yasnaya Polyana featured more than 100 events
This weekend the Yasnaya Polyana estate-museum hosted a major cultural event: the eighth "Tolstoy" theatre festival. More than a hundred events took place at 13 open-air venues: plays, concerts, film screenings, lectures, promenade performances and workshops. Now that the sounds of theatre, classical music and cinema
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Phases of the Moon arranged in a circle on a black background
Art · Science
In 1776 Joseph Wright of Derby presented a painting of a Solar System model as a scientific mystery
The faces of the figures in Joseph Wright's painting are lit by an unseen candle in accordance with the principal phases of the Moon. In 1776 the British artist Joseph Wright of Derby presented to the public a painting in which a scientific subject was depicted as though
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The Abduction of Europa, a drawing on a Greek vase of the 4th century BC found at Paestum, a Greek colony in Italy
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Catholics versus Protestants, it would seem
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None Has Excelled So Well in Mouse Notes as the Cat Orchestra, 1700s, Lombard School
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Vanessa Redgrave as Isadora Duncan was filmed at a temple in Paestum, not on the Acropolis
Vanessa Redgrave as Isadora Duncan, who danced in 1921 in the temples of the Acropolis. The scenes with Redgrave were filmed not on the Acropolis, as the Doric columns show, but in a Doric temple at Paestum, or Poseidonia, a Greek colony founded in the late seventh century BC in
Paris · Pop Culture · Humour
Van Cleef & Arpels released the men's fragrance Eau du Tsar with Russian motifs in 1998
In 1998 Van Cleef & Arpels launched a men's fragrance, Eau du Tsar, that is, "the Tsar's Water". The design of the bottle and its case drew on Russian motifs, from a coat of arms in the Muscovite style to Cyrillic lettering. Amusingly, the
Archive · Society · Humour
Your Sanctions Are Pipe Dreams, Mr Reagan!
Soviet people warmly approve the patriotic initiative of the labour collectives of the gas-pipeline builders, who have pledged their word to bring all the gas pipelines, the export pipeline included, into operation on schedule and ahead of it, notwithstanding the discriminatory sanctions undertaken by the US administration Yu. Galkin
Archive · Architecture · Paris
Paris 1937 competition design by unknown author resembles the Syuyumbike Tower in Kazan
In 1937 a design was submitted to the architectural competition of the International Exhibition in Paris that bears a suspicious resemblance to the 58-metre Söyembikä Tower in Kazan. Since no information about the authorship of the Parisian competition drawing has survived to our day, one is left to guess
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