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Alexandr Radayev
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Framed prints reading “Friend”, “Suddenly”, “Enemy” in a gallery
NB! · Coming Up · Art · Moscow
Graphic Works by Erik Bulatov at the pop/off/art Gallery, Winzavod
Graphic works by Erik Bulatov at the pop/off/art gallery, Winzavod. The Bulatov exhibition runs until 16 January
NB! · Cinema
The Three Ages of the Historical-Film Viewer
Archaeology · Museums · Heritage
Ancient Egyptian wig 3,900 years old in the British Museum collection
Can you imagine that this wig is 3,900 years old? This ancient Egyptian wig from the collection of the British Museum dates to the 12th Dynasty and was acquired in the nineteenth century. Naturally, the wig owes its superb state of preservation to restoration, so perhaps not every hair
NB! · Observations · Humour
You Are the Coolest Log!
Archive · Monarchies · Mores · People
Catherine's letter to Poniatowski on the request of captive Peter a week before his killing
The arrested Peter III asked Catherine for the Negro who used to amuse him, his favourite dog, a violin, a Bible and a few novels. True, Catherine herself tells Poniatowski in a letter that Peter also asked for his mistress, Elizaveta Vorontsova, but she refused to send her, though she
Books · Science · Nature · Ethnography
There are many signs of the harsh frosts to come, but the surest is clouds that form fiery rings or even columns about the setting sun, making a kind of phantom city, or blazing pyramid-shaped rays that rise from the sun into the heavens…
There are many signs of the harsh frosts to come, but the surest is clouds that form fiery rings or even columns about the setting sun, making a kind of phantom city, or blazing pyramid-shaped rays that rise from the sun into the heavens. And when these fiery crimson
London · Mores · People · Humour
The legend of Thomas Hardy's heart eaten by a cat and its rejection by biographers
The Cat That Won the Poet's Heart. One of the strangest burial stories is attributed to the funeral of the English poet Thomas Hardy in 1928. Hardy lived to the age of 87. His body was cremated, and his ashes were interred in Poets' Corner in Westminster
NB! · Geography · Maps · Society
The Largest Cities of Europe in 1600
NB! · Archive · The East
Membership card of the Union for Mutual Aid of Jews from Russia in Constantinople, 1923
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