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Alexandr Radayev
Art · Museums · Heritage · Education
Gustav Klimt's painting "Medicine", 1901
The painting was destroyed by the Germans in 1945; this reconstruction was made in 2021 by the Leopold Museum in Vienna.
Books · Monarchies · Mores · Ethnography
Engelhardt, in his book A Complete School of Hunting Fur and Feather in All Zones of Russia, notes that the Grand Dukes went hunting in bast shoes, since there is no handier or more practical footwear for the forest in winter: snow gets into them as easil
NB! · London · Observations · Society · Humour
The Royal Arms Vanish from the British Prime Minister's Lectern
The royal arms have vanished from the lectern of the British Prime Minister. What might this mean?
NB! · Cinema · Books · People
Bertolucci, asked about reincarnation, recalled a poem by Borges: "the fish lives in the ocean, and a man remembers that he was once a fish"
Art · Books · Observations
Andrey Bely’s 1915 poem “Dedication”, which recalls Dante
Bartolomeo di Fruosino, Illustration to Dante's "Inferno" There is a poem by Andrei Bely called "Dedication", written in 1915. And it reminds me of Dante. I asked you for bread, and was given molten stone, And at once, scorched through, my palm smokes foully.
Art · Museums
Young Woman Warming Her Hands over a Brazier: An Allegory of Winter
Caesar Pietersz van Everdingen, c. 1644 – c. 1648. Rijksmuseum collection
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Church at Borki near Kharkov on an old postcard
Architecture · Faith · Monarchies · Heritage · Saint Petersburg
Church at Borki near Kharkiv built in memory of the rescue of Alexander III's family in 1888
Near Kharkiv, at the site of the terrorist derailment of Emperor Alexander III's train, returning from the Crimea on 17 October 1888, from which he escaped with his entire family, a hermitage was founded, and in 1894 a magnificent church was built. The Church of Christ the Saviour
NB! · Archive
A German cavalryman in the winter of 1915 on the Eastern Front
Art · Observations · Reportage
Five installations at the festival in Kazan, where artists occupied 17 locations
I want to share the five most beautiful and, in my view, most significant art objects of the independent NUR International Media Art Festival, held in Kazan from 24 to 26 May, incidentally for the fourth time already. A great many artists gathered, spread over 17 locations, so there was
Science · Society
Russian Academy of Sciences to create board of trustees and invite Putin to chair it
The general meeting of the Russian Academy of Sciences has resolved to establish a Board of Trustees of the RAS. The academicians will send Vladimir Putin an invitation to head it. Academician Nikolay Makarov remarks that the academy has never before had a board of trustees, but that it should