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Alexandr Radayev
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Judging by this fish-tailed monk from a thirteenth-century bestiary, the Little Mermaid did have somewhere to turn besides dry land and the sea witch
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Studio group portrait of a young man in uniform with four boys and a small girl
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Granddaughter of merchant Grigory Yeliseyev in the USSR gave an inheritance of millions of francs to the state
The merchant Grigory Grigoryevich Yeliseyev, one of the richest men in the country and grandson of the founder of a famous trading dynasty, managed to leave Russia in 1920; by then he had property and accounts abroad and had no difficulty arranging his life. But not all of his children
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The Lord's Prayer read in English in Orthodox churches in Australia
The Cathedral of the Protection of the Most Holy Theotokos in Melbourne, Australia. It turns out that in Orthodox churches in Australia the "Our Father" is also recited in English. It sounds very unfamiliar. The text, as I understand it, is taken from Protestant translations. I consider it
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Oliver Cromwell in a Horned Hat, with a Bespectacled Owl on His Shoulder
Coming Up · Monarchies · Moscow · Museums · Education
Item from the Tsarskoye Selo Museum at the “Becoming a Romanov” exhibition in Tsaritsyno
A Hussar Officer's Mentik of the Life Guards Hussar Regiment, Made for Grand Duke Alexander Nikolayevich When He Was Two Months Old. From the collection of the Tsarskoye Selo State Museum Reserve; on view at Tsaritsyno, in the exhibition "Becoming a Romanov. Upbringing and Education in the
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The Council Code of 1649 forbade Russians to serve unbaptised foreigners
The Arrival of Foreigners in Moscow in the Seventeenth Century, Sergei Vasilyevich Ivanov, 1901. Until the reign of Peter, all Europeans in Russia were called, and written down as, unbaptised. And the Council Code of 1649 laid down outright a prohibition on Russians serving, or being in bondage, to unbaptised
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The Holy Mandylion of the seventeenth century from the Church of St Nicholas in the village of Kovda, a patrimony of the Solovetsky Monastery
The Holy Mandylion of the seventeenth century from the Church of St Nicholas in the village of Kovda, a patrimony of the Solovetsky Monastery. Collection of the Murmansk Regional Art Museum
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Nicholas II blesses soldiers of the 37th Division with an icon before their departure for the Russo-Japanese War front
Nicholas II blesses soldiers departing for the front of the Russo-Japanese War with the icon of the Saviour Not Made by Hands. Farewell to the 37th Division
Faith · Art · Museums · Observations · Saint Petersburg
Icon “The Baptism” from a Festal Tier, Second Half of the 17th Century, in the Russian Museum
Happy Epiphany! Second half of the 17th century, icon “The Baptism of Christ” from the festal tier, Russian Museum collection
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The writer Sergey Durylin, Pasternak's teacher, built a house on a foundation of stones from a chapel of the Moscow Kremlin, with the help of his friend the architect Shchusev, who designed Lenin's Mausoleum
The writer Sergey Durylin, Pasternak's teacher, built a house on a foundation of stones from a chapel of the Moscow Kremlin, with the help of his friend the architect Shchusev, who designed Lenin's Mausoleum. Later a mail kukuruznik (a small Soviet biplane) crashed onto this house.