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Alexandr Radayev
NB! · Archive · Monarchies · Society · Saint Petersburg
In her Decree to the Senate after the overthrow of Peter III, Catherine calls him not sovereign, not Grand Duke, not husband, not even Peter Fyodorovich, but "the former Emperor"
In her Decree to the Senate after the overthrow of Peter III, Catherine calls him not sovereign, not Grand Duke, not husband, not even Peter Fyodorovich, but "the former Emperor". Of herself, however, Catherine writes: "the true Sovereign" and "Our Imperial Majesty"
Architecture · Faith · Art · Heritage
Jan Keser and Martin Zimmermann's flying cathedral for the bicentenary of the canton of St. Gallen
The Flying Cathedral is a project by the artists Jan Keser and Martin Zimmermann, timed to coincide with the 200th anniversary of the Swiss canton of St Gallen. The balloon was conceived as a flying advertisement for the canton and its chief symbol, the Baroque Cathedral of St Gallen of
NB! · Art · Observations
Albrecht Dürer’s drawing of six pillows, made in 1493
Good morning! Six cushions by Albrecht Dürer, 1493
Books · People
Nikolay Rubtsov's 1960 poem on love for Russia and his native home
Hello, Russia, my homeland! How joyful it is for me beneath your foliage! There is no singing, yet I clearly hear The choral singing of unseen singers… As though a wind had driven me across it, Across the whole land, through villages and capitals! I was strong, but the wind
Architecture · Moscow · Heritage · Society
1954 station building at Leninskaya platform in Domodedovo put up for sale on Avito
Apparently, the platform from which Lenin's funeral train departed in 1924 is being sold for half a billion roubles. A railway station has been put up for sale on Avito. Leninskaya (Gerasimovo) platform on the Paveletsky line of the Moscow Railway, in the Domodedovo urban district of Moscow
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Evening in the garden by a two-storey brick house with string lights
Books · Society · People
I do not call for the replacement of the state by a library – though the thought has visited me more than once — but I have no doubt that, were we to choose our rulers on the basis of their reading experience rather than their political programmes, there
I do not call for the replacement of the state by a library – though the thought has visited me more than once — but I have no doubt that, were we to choose our rulers on the basis of their reading experience rather than their political programmes, there would be less
Archive · The East · Cinema · Pop Culture
Yury Nikulin, Yevgeny Morgunov and Georgy Vitsin on the set of the film “Kidnapping, Caucasian Style”, 1966
Photo by Oleg Mertsedin
Art · Books · Ethnography
The Inscription on the Stone in Vasnetsov's "Knight at the Crossroads"
"Go straight ahead, and you'll not stay alive; there is no way for rider, walker or flyer." Yet, by Vasnetsov's own account, the text has a continuation, borrowed from the epic tale (bylina) and hidden by him beneath a layer of moss: "Go
NB! · Archive · Books · Science · Mores
Children’s drawings on the backs of Charles Darwin’s “Origin of Species” drafts
Drawings by Charles Darwin's children on the backs of the drafts of "On the Origin of Species". Of the draft notes, only those sheets have survived on which the scientist's children left their drawings, undoubtedly inspired by natural-scientific interests
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