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Alexandr Radayev
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Edith Piaf at the window of her last home on Boulevard Lannes in the 1950s
Édith Piaf at her last home on the Boulevard Lannes. 1950s
Books · Observations
Umberto Eco on why one should keep more books at home than one can read
It is foolish to think that you must read every book you buy. It is equally foolish to criticise those who buy more books than they will ever be able to read. That is like saying that you must use every piece of cutlery, every glass, every screwdriver or drill
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King George V in Infancy
NB! · People · Nature
A Hundred-Year-Old Rhododendron and the Woman Who Tended It All Her Life
Books · Monarchies · Paris
In March 1814 Russian troops took Paris
Anton Delvig, Pushkin's schoolfellow, wrote a poem "On the Capture of Paris", printed in June 1814 in the "Vestnik Evropy" [Herald of Europe]. It contains these lines about Alexander I: "And the conqueror of Paris, tender father to the Russians, forgetting the ashes
NB! · Archive · Monarchies · Mores
Little Lilibet, the future Queen Elizabeth II, smiles at her grandfather, King George V, while out walking with her grandmother, Queen Mary of Teck, in 1929
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Engraving “Dessein, Pantographe”: a drawing instrument and its parts
Coming Up · Art · Museums · Saint Petersburg
Five Saint Petersburg exhibitions, including Olga Rozanova at the Marble Palace
If you are weary of Moscow's sultry weather, you need the cool Baltic air. But you surely do not know that in Saint Petersburg, too, nobody is having an easier time of it, and one may well have to languish from the heat still more. I hope that
People · Pop Culture
If Beethoven is a miracle among men, Bach is a miracle among the gods
The Italian composer Gioachino Rossini
Faith · Books · Observations
Greet one another with an holy kiss
Greet ye one another with an holy kiss. The salutation of me Paul with mine own hand. If any man love not the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be Anathema Maranatha. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. My love be with you all in Christ Jesus.
Archaeology · The East · Museums
The chief exhibit, perhaps, of the Istanbul Archaeology Museum, the so-called Alexander Sarcophagus, like much in Turkey, does not correspond to its name in the least
The chief exhibit, perhaps, of the Istanbul Archaeology Museum, the so-called Alexander Sarcophagus, like much in Turkey, does not correspond to its name in the least. In truth, it is connected with Alexander only by a coincidence of dating and by the fact that the king appears in one