Monday, 19 October 2026

Alexandr Radayev

Alexander the Great was well known in Rus', and if we are to believe the texts of Mavro Orbini's "The Kingdom of the Slavs", "The Tale of Slovene and Rus and the City of Slovensk" and Nizami Ganjavi's "Iskandar-nama", Alexander the Great knew Rus' too and

Architecture · Faith · Books · Heritage

Alexander the Great was well known in Rus', and if we are to believe the texts of Mavro Orbini's "The Kingdom of the Slavs", "The Tale of Slovene and Rus and the City of Slovensk" and Nizami Ganjavi's "Iskandar-nama", Alexander the Great knew Rus' too and

These legendary reports find reflection in Old Russian architecture. The subject of the Ascension of Alexander the Great is widely known. One example is the relief of Alexander the Great's ascension, in which he holds two sceptres and is borne aloft by griffins, on the façade of the

By Alexandr Radayev
The Aswan Dam on the Nile, built in Egypt by the USSR, is itself a monument to Egyptian-Soviet friendship, yet once the hydroelectric complex was finished a separate monument was also erected to commemorate the warm relations between the two countries

Architecture · The East · Geography · Society

The Aswan Dam on the Nile, built in Egypt by the USSR, is itself a monument to Egyptian-Soviet friendship, yet once the hydroelectric complex was finished a separate monument was also erected to commemorate the warm relations between the two countries

Attempts to dam the Nile had been made for a long time, but the efforts of the early twentieth century came to nothing. The truly epoch-making undertaking was the Soviet construction in Egypt. The colossal dam raised by builders from the USSR was dubbed a modern pyramid, though in

By Alexandr Radayev
Should you ever grow vain, compare yourselves, lying awake until two in the morning with a telephone in your embrace, scrolling through reels, with the seventeenth-century astronomer of the Dutch painter Gerrit Dou, who, with hourglass and globe, passes h

NB! · Art · Observations · Science · Humour

Should you ever grow vain, compare yourselves, lying awake until two in the morning with a telephone in your embrace, scrolling through reels, with the seventeenth-century astronomer of the Dutch painter Gerrit Dou, who, with hourglass and globe, passes h

Should you ever grow vain, compare yourselves, lying awake until two in the morning with a telephone in your embrace, scrolling through reels, with the seventeenth-century astronomer of the Dutch painter Gerrit Dou, who, with hourglass and globe, passes his nights over a scientific treatise. Do you feel the

By Alexandr Radayev
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